Robert Frost as a Philosopher

• Name: Sonal Baraiya• Class: MA Sem-3• Roll No.: 26• Paper No.: 10-The American Literature• Submitted to: Smt. S.B. Gardi, Department of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

Robert Frost

Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California.

He spent the first 11 years of his life there, until his father, William Prescott Frost Jr., died of tuberculosis.

What is Philosophy?

• Philosophia= ‘‘Love of Wisdom’’ or ‘‘Friend of Wisdom’’

• Philosophy is the study of the general and fundamental nature of reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.

Frost and Philosophy• Frost’s strongest philosophical

connection was with William James, the American Pragmatist

• Philosophical considerations- ‘‘A Poem should not be, but is’’• Frost is a deeply philosophical poet and

finds deeper meaning in the world around him

Stopping by Woods on a snowy Evening

• Man’s existential loneliness or other ultimate matters

• Finding the meaning of life

• two realities, the subjective and the objective, are merged over the course of the poem

Home Burial

• Existential concern

• Death reveals the truth about the living: we are really alone

Conclusion

• Speaker is in dilemma• Questioning of the

reason for our existence• Civilization v/s nature• Life v/s death• For example- Jayanta Mahapatra’s ‘‘Missing’’

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