Search for Belief in the Poetry of Robert Frost English 2003

This book plans to discuss Robert Frost's constructive attitude towards life as portrayed in most of his poems. The author has given a new perspective to Frost's criticism. The sense of death, decay, degeneration, devaluation, disintegration and alienation has been the prominent wing of modern poetry. Frost is conscious of all these aspects of modern life. It is not that he is unaware of the modern predicament. Rather he is useless to call our time bad. In his poetry one finds a different approach to the problems of life. In spite of the fact that life is full of distressing aspects, Frost describes life "worth living". In "Birches" he declares: "Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better." This reveals the fact that he is not one among the Palayana Panthis, neither is he a Nirashavadi: he is an Ashavadi who believes in this creation.