Robert Frost

Robert Frost is a man of many words ideas and inquiries, his poems are filled with internal arguments between two people and within themselves. The lines that he draws for each of his characters, leaves them in somewhat of a one-sided view but there is a gray area and they dabble in it from time to time. Untermeyer believes that Frost immolates, "The world's contradictions without being crushed by them." This makes the reader feel some kind of humanity for the character making him or her more humane and real. Several poems like West Running Brook, the Star-Splitter, Home Burial, Mending Wall, the White-Tailed Hornet, Blueberries, and Birches are just some of the poems that excite there views in which Untermeyer stated previously.

The fight between two people is always an interesting read; it's like the battle between good and evil, the clash of two Titians or a heavy weight fight. Mending Wall, is just that a poem that illustrates just that. In Mending Wall Robert Frost introduces two men on the views of putting a wall between their lands. The term "Good fences make good neighbors," which to me seem like he is trying to tell his neighbor that he should mind his own side of the yard and on interact with his side when he seems fit. The other neighbor stated, "Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out, and to whom I was like to give offense." Meaning that he opposed the wall because, he saw no true reason disassociate himself for a neighbor that he had no tribulations or dilemmas with. Home Burial is also an intellectual conversation between husband and wife, over a dead child. Both parents have different views on the situation but in my mind they are both right. For example, the wife believes that the husband doesn't feel any sympathy for the death of their dead child in that he has a hard time showing his emotions to her. As the wife says, "The wonder is I didn't see at once. I never noticed it from here before." Bring up old memories and feels about the family and their memories. On the other hand the man of the home believes that he must keep the home together and intact even though the family is going through so much turmoil. The wife sees this as a problem and the husband sees her as a problem, in that she has mourned for too long. The poem Blueberries is a story about gossiping, two women are picking berries and talk about a family that dose this for a living call the Patterson's. This family is able to find "blueberries as big as the end of your thumb, real sky-blue, and heavy, and ready to drum." They thought that is was wrong for the Patterson