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FREE NOTES: ROBERT FROST: Frost's poetry both tradition and modern

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Frost poetry both tradition and modern   Question : What makes Frost’s poetry both tradition and modern? or, Frost’s poetry reflects modern life despite its pastoral setting- substantiate. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Answer: Robert Frost is a blend of both modern and tradition. Frost follows pastoral and romantic tradition that we see in his poems “Vergil’s “Georgics”’, “Build soil”, “Design”, “West Running Book”, “The Onset” etc. Frost’s most revealing characteristic of modernity is his use of technique. In consideration of his themes, he is a classic- traditional as well as modern.               Modern poetry may be said to have begun as a fresh attempt to solve the problem posed by science. Imagism, or , we can say symbolism, represents an attempt to confront the physical facts of reality in the most direct way in modern poetry. Frost’s poetry is not modern in this connection. But Frost is one who, in