Alienation and Uncertainty in the Poetry of Robert Frost

Alienation and Uncertainty in the Poetry of Robert Frost

This paper aims to explore Robert Frost’spoems as a commentary of the broader social problems thatcharacterized his milieu. Frost is an American poet and a farmer wholived in New England. With this in mind people might consider that hispoetry is full of admiration for the beauty of nature. However, in a largenumber of his poems we can observe people suffering from alienationand uncertainty caused by problems such as: economic depression, theaftermath of industrialization, the isolation of old men, the cruelty ofwar, and man’s desperation. Frost, however, retains his neutrality. Helooks at this world warmly, appealing to humanity―his poetry being fullof sympathy for people.