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“These letters, backed by the fine scholarship of Harvard’s team of editors, whose notes and background material are always well judged and to the point, help us to understand the constant need that the poet had for stays against confusion, and to appreciate more fully those poems that brilliantly achieve such a stay.”
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My Own Desert Places: On “The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 3: 1929–1936”
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Term Paper: Robert Frost’s Stay against Confusion
Robert Frost’s poetic techniques serve as his own “momentary stay against confusion,” or as a buffer against mortality and meaninglessness in several different ways; in the next few examples, I intend to prove this. Firstly, however, a little information about Robert Frost and his works must be provided in order to understand some references and information given. Robert Frost is an iconic poet in American literature today, and is seen as one of the most well known, popular, or respected twentieth century American poets. In his lifetime, Frost received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry, and the Congressional Gold Medal. However, Robert Frost’s life was not always full of fame and wealth; he had a very difficult life from the very beginning. At age 11, his father died of tuberculosis; fifteen years later, his mother died of cancer. Frost committed his younger sister to a mental hospital, and many years later, committed his own daughter to a mental hospital as well. Both Robert and his wife Elinor suffered from depression throughout their lives, but considering the premature deaths of three of their children and the suicide of another, both maintained sanity very well. (1) Robert Frost spent much of his life studying the existence of everything around him. He studied the everyday ins and outs of other people and nature, and very often contemplated the point of human life and religion. Many of these topics,
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