Robert Frost

What contrast do you find between Warren and his wife Mary?

Answer:  Warren and Mary are husband and wife, two characters beside the protagonist, Silas. The poet has depicted these two characters in such a way that the one stands out sharply in contrast with the other. Warren, the farmer, and master of the old servant Silas, is portrayed as a man callous to the human dignity

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“Wisdom and whimsy join to make a poem that delights the mind and endears itself to the heart.” Substantiate the statement of Untermeyer about “Birches.”

Answer: “Birches” seems to be a playful poem, for it depicts picture of the poet’s playing with them in all his poetic fancies. But it is not a mere play; it contains the poet’s wisdom which is profound and practical. It talks about how a boy can play with the birches, as the poet did, as

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Discuss the dilemma that the poet faced when the poet had to choose one road out of two. Was he wise in choosing the road not frequented by people?

Answer: In the poem, “The Road not Taken” the poet Robert Frost has showed a dilemma which he faced when he had to choose one road out of two. He chose the unfrequented road. He was wise in choosing the road, for he ultimately succeeded. The poem mainly deals with the poet’s decision when faced with

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How can you justify the title of the poem, “The Death of the Hired Man”?

Answer: The title of the poem, “The Death of the Hired Man”, may seem confusing, because the main character of the story, Silas, the old servant of Warren and Mary, does never appear; he always seems to be in the background. We learn things about him from the conversations between Warren and his wife. The reader

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How does Frost deal with the theme of loneliness in his poems?

Or Depict the theme of alienation in the poems of Robert Frost. Or Discuss the poetry of Frost as the poetry of isolation.   Answer: The theme of alienation or isolation is a recurrent one in Frost’s poems. The word alienation actually belongs to psychology. It means different things in psychology, but the meaning that is

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