Frost's poems are based on the theme of rural life, which has many similarities with the poets of19th century, but in contrast, they are less modernist.
He has won four Pulitzer Prizes and many other awards and honors, and is called "Poet Laureate in American Literature". It was not until the second half of his life that his poems won public recognition. In the next few years, he established the image of a great writer.
Features of Frost's works:
In the form of poetry, Frost took a completely different road from most poets in the 20th century. Instead of trying to reform the form of poetry, he inherited the tradition and was satisfied with expressing new content in the old form. He likes to use plain spoken English, with a gentle and calm tone and familiar rhythm.
His poems generally follow the traditional rhythmic forms, such as rhyming double lines, three lines, four lines and sonnets, and they are all well written. Frost seldom writes free verse. He once said that poetry without rhyme is like tennis without cover. He seems to have a soft spot for iambic. He once said, "For English poetry, iambic and slightly changed iambic are the only natural rhythms."
Indeed, among the four main steps of English poetry-iambic, iambic, iambic and iambic, iambic is by far the most common step in English poetry, so it is also called the most natural rhythm, that is, a weak pronunciation followed by a stressed syllable.
Poems written in this cadence have a distinct rhythm, continuous, gentle and smooth, which is more suitable for expressing the quiet and simple beauty of rural scenery. No wonder Frost likes iambic in several traditional iambic. The greatest feature of his poetry writing is that he is good at expressing a profound philosophy with seemingly insignificant things in front of him.
It is precisely because he is good at expressing abstract concepts with concrete things that his poems are easily accepted and understood by readers, among which Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Night and The Road Not Taken are obvious examples. These two poems have always been in the top ten of the most popular 100 English poems.