TOW #18 - The FIgure a Poem Makes by Robert Frost - Written

Robert Frost is one of the greatest American writers of all time. Primarily a poet, Frost also wrote plays and a select few essays, one of which I will be examining today. He lived from 1874 to 1963, and wrote for most of his time on earth. Most of his poems and writings focused on nature and the environment. In The Figure of a Poem, Robert frost makes great use of metapoetry and imagery in order to communicate his opinion on the forms that poems take on. He argues that the purpose of each poem is to be different in form and sound from any other poem by comparing the ecstasy that he believes to be inherent in any poem to something that is not statically held in place, the best parts of a poem are not restricted to one part in any form or mold of the like. He postulates that the joy and wisdom of poems are only restricted by joy coming before wisdom. Frost utilizes poetic writing in an essay about poems in order to prove his point, which is a fine point of metarhetoric. this only goes to show that his essay about poems, areguing that each poem should strive to be different from all others of its ilk, proves its own point by being different from any other poetic writing. Robert frost uses the same poetic imagery as a Pathological tool to open up his readers to the suggestions he is making. He uses beauty as a key to open the metaphorical doors of his readers' minds, allowing them to more easily accept the information that he puts out by making it sweeter to consume. All in all, Frost writes a compelling and convincing essay about the nature of Poetry by writing a poem in essay form.