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Toward Robert Frost - The Reader and the Poet (Hardcover)
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Toward Robert Frost - The Reader and the Poet (Hardcover)
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Every poem, Robert Frost declared, ""is an epitome of the great
predicament, a figure of the will braving alien entanglements.""
This study considers what Frost meant by those entanglements, how
he braved them in his poetry, and how he invited his readers to do
the same. In the process it contributes significantly to a new
critical awareness of Frost as a complex artist who anticipated
postmodernism - a poet who invoked literary traditions and
conventions frequently to set himself in tension with them. Using
the insights of reader-response theory, Judith Oster explains how
Frost appeals to readers with his apparent accessibility and then,
because of the openness of his poetry's possibilities, engages them
in the process of constructing meaning. Frost's poems, she
demonstrates, teach the reader how they should be read; at the same
time, they resist closure and definitive reading. The reader's acts
of encountering and constructing the poems parallel Frost's own
encounters and acts of construction. Commenting at length on a
number of individual poems, Oster ranges in her discussion from the
ways in which the poet dramatizes the inadequacy of the self alone
to the manner in which he ""reads"" the Book of Genesis or the
writing of Emerson. Oster illuminates, finally, the central
conflict in Frost: his need to be read well against his fear of
being read; his need to share his creation against his fear of its
appropriation by others.
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