Characteristics of Frost's Poetry

Frost's poetry is largely reflective of the rural life he found himself in following the death of his grandfather. For many of his poems, the focus was upon nature and the rural world, utilizing regionalism to accurately depict New England life. Although his poetry is largely focused upon the New England region, his poetry's impact and success was largely able to expand beyond that specific region. He focused, within his poems, upon human experience, events that were shared collectively by humanity and were not geographically limiting to his audience. A large part of Frost's poetry was also focused upon human existence, consisting of what amounted to dark reflections on the nature of humanity, usually contrasted by language that is not necessarily befitting to the nature of the theme. Robert Frost's legacy lies within the ability he developed to weave a poem with diction and syntax that was accessible and understandable to the layman, while simultaneously creating poems that were rich in meaning with underlying, significant messages.