I really enjoyed the way that Frost used the calm and peaceful images of nature to express the violence of battle in his “Range-Finding.” It is interesting to note how these images are able to create a sense of sorrow almost as deep as that created by images of destroyed humans. All of the things he describes are so likeable (a “cobweb diamond strung” (1), a bird, a butterfly, a flower) that their being harmed seems needless and sad. Obviously, Frost is intending to show through understatement the losses caused by warfare. From a deconstructionist viewpoint, however, I must point out that there are many things that work against the intended theme of this poem. The mood of lamentation is shattered several times by hard consonants, for instance in “fluttering” and “twixt,” and the meter seems overly bouncy for the quite serious theme. However, these are minor things, and Frost clearly knew what he was doing.
Perhaps he purposely inserted them to make the reader sit up and take notice. I never thought that I could compare Robert Frost’s poetry to Dr Suess. However, there is a comparison. Frost’s “Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening” and “Green Eggs And Ham” are similar. Although they do not have the exact same rhyme scheme, they are both iambic tetrameter. For example, “Whose woods these are I think I know” and “I will not eat green eggs and ham” both have the first syllable unstressed and the second stressed (iambic).
The Term Paper on Imagery In Robert Frosts Poetry
... is demonstrated in Once by the Pacific as Frost tries to do two things at once by revealing the light, but not ... the kind of originality he sought, Frost placed great emphasis on his choice of simple image-making words and phrases for the ... a still point and he is trying to maintain the image of impotent energy and fruitless ratiocination.Frosts main abstract poem is ...
These repeat in groups of four in every line (tetrameter).
Another example follows: (this “^” following a syllable means that it is stressed) “His house^ is in^ the vill^age though^”I will^ not eat^ them Sam^ I am^”.
