Robert Frost의 시의 현대성 논의 : 초기 극적 시들을 중심으로 = A Study on the Modernity of Robert Frost's Poetry

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Robert Frost (1874-1963) is a unique poet in that though he was a modern poet, he is somewhat different from the group of Modernist poets such as W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot or Ezra Pound. Frost's poetry has been regarded as great but such evaluation is always followed by some reservations. In this context this study tries to explain what his poetry is about and in what aspects his poetry is different from those of the so-called Modernists.
This study deals mainly with his early poems-speclfically the ones in A Boy's Will(1913) and North of Boston(1914). And through tentative analysis of those poems, it tries to find out how Frost comprehended man and the world. For this purpose the dramatic poems are especially useful because these poems directly deal with various human relationships and show what Frost thought of the life and the world through the eyes and mouths of the characters.
Frost expresses a unique difference from the traditional Romantic poetry through some poems concerned with man's fear and isolation, human confrontation with hostile nature and the world, lack of communication and of relationships. On the other hand, he could not be a true Modernist because he could not commit himself to the radical tendencies as shown by some Modernists. He could not go into the wilderness and "shout and shout / Until the strength was shouted out of him" ; he could not completely free himself from all those norms, restrictions, rules, and customs of the world ; and he could not push himself to the extreme as some of the Modernists did. Staying within the limits of the comfort of the home or cultured world looking out at wild nature - that might be summed up as the proper place of Frost in the modern poetry.