Graduation Year
2016
Date of Submission
5-2016
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Literature
Reader 1
Robert Faggen
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Abstract
This thesis examines Frost’s conception of poetry as the labor of human value. It investigates how Frost consciously shaped his notions of “sound of sense” and metaphor, which he deemed fundamental elements of poetic labor, in contradistinction to the Modernist poetics of Eliot and Pound. The author closely examines a representative sample of Frost’s poetry and prose as critiques of Modernist poetic theory and its implications for what Frost deemed the essential human function of poetry. The thesis will interest scholars studying strains of English poetic thought that developed concurrently with and against Modernist poetic thought. More broadly, it will interest those who seek a serious and thoughtful challenge to Modernist literary trends that prevail even today.
Recommended Citation
Pan, Lina, "Poetic Labor: Meaning and Matter in Robert Frost's Poetry." (2016). CMC Senior Theses. 1401.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1401
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Comments
Best Senior Thesis in Literature