The name Robert Frost once called to mind only simple images of
woods and home, aging couples and sweet nature, all easily
comprehensible. But no more. Critics now find complexity in Frost,
and Richard Pokier (English, Rutgers) has written the most
substantial critical revision yet. Locating Frost's genius in his
mastery of metaphor, sound, and the appearances of simplicity,
Poirier analyzes his simple poetry as a performance - "I should
like to be so subtle at this game," Poirier quotes him, "as to seem
to a casual person altogether obvious." Properly read, Frost's
poetry is thus "a criticism of the life of writing itself," which
discloses the possibilities of form and "the sheer power of
linguistic sound." Pokier elaborates this interpretation through
scrutiny Of Frost's poems, letters, essays, and relations to other
writers, including philosophers such as Emerson and James. He shows
us the self-styled simple poet fighting against literary modernism
(with comparisons to modernists like Eliot, Joyce, and Stevens) and
political liberalism (which proved sadly that Frost "was blind to
social systems") while exploring language and the affinities of
nature and human feeling, especially sexuality. Frost emerges from
this close examination, as Poirier says, like an old friend whose
foibles are well-known but whose distinctive powers have never
truly been seen. But be warned: this is academic criticism which
presupposes familiarity with modern critical theory and recent
Frost scholarship, led by Lawrance Thompson's biography; it is not
intended for Frost's simple admirers. (Kirkus Reviews)
The work of American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963) aspired to be
accessible and colloquial. Instead of looking to Europe for
inspiration, as did some of his contemoraries, Frost aimed to
develop an authentic voice, with the rhythms and vocabulary of
everyday American speech.
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