Menu du Cours 1. Literary Terms. Activités Apprentissage Actives. Video - Robert Frost and Literary Terms. The Figure a Poem Makes. Robert Frost. Robert Frost holds a unique and almost isolated position in American letters. "Though his career fully spans the modern period and though it is impossible to speak of him as anything other than a modern poet," writes James M. Cox, "it is difficult to place him in the main tradition of modern poetry.
" In a sense, Frost stands at the crossroads of nineteenth-century American poetry and modernism, for in his verse may be found the culmination of many nineteenth-century tendencies and traditions as well as parallels to the works of his twentieth-century contemporaries. Taking his symbols from the public domain, Frost developed, as many critics note, an original, modern idiom and a sense of directness and economy that reflect the imagism of Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell. Frost's theory of poetic composition ties him to both centuries. Like the nineteenth-century Romantics, he maintained that a poem is "never a put-up job.... Frost's poetry is revered to this day. Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost. Fire and Ice by Robert Frost. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost.