Critical Reviews of Robert Frost

There are many different people who have commented and critiqued Robert Frost’s work. Some of them are as long as ten pages and others are just short paragraphs, but all of the ones that I’ve read have pretty much the same thing to say. Tina Ferris commented on Frost’s simple vocabulary. She said that he had a keen observation of rural New England life. Ferris says how Frost has a “down-home folkish …

…the main tendensies of modern poetry. He is more of a clear, simple, moral poet who writes of rural, democratic joys. It says how he is both the positive poet of rural America, and the “chronicler of the dark night of human soul”. It comments on how he is a sophisticated poet who uses a lot of irony and ambiguity. Though Robert Frost used traditional verse forms, the created tension within of thought and feeling.