Robert Frost - Imagery In His Poetry

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said to have to think more deeply to call up images in order to convey his ideas. Frost uses simple dialect to express the simplicity and eagerness of the American language (Trachea 92). "So far as Frost is concerned, the very measure of poetic performance is in the degree to which it can domesticate the imagination of disaster" (Trachea 114). Frost creates an atmosphere of depth, pulling the reader into the story by his use of descriptive adjectives, such as "ancient", Cole 2 "fresh-painted", and "velvety" (Hadas 59). Frost’s descriptions help us hear the pounding of rain, the rustling of the leaves on trees, and feel the harshness of the cold (Trachea 117). A few of his other descriptions are the desolation, silence, and emptiness that he uses to describe the cottage in "Black Cottage." These terms allow the reader to be drawn in wholly to the story, and they enhance the rhetorical drama of what is occurring- the decay of ...

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convey specific ideas (Potter 164). He did not believe in creating new ideas into people’s minds, rather he created new pictures of old ideas. He perceived the world with beauty and strongness and to calm the "emotional response," he filtered it through the intellect and put it into a metaphor, thus subjecting it to his form of artistry. Frost felt that if he as a poet was able to have these different perceptions of the world, his readers should be able to appreciate them, even if he only hinted at them. He thought as Emerson did: "the correspondence between objects were what began the process of poetic creation" (Potter 165). Cole 3 Frost also used the device of ...

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