I know what you mean about Frost. His is a classical style, limpid and lyrical. All three qualities that are out of style these days. I know this poem, and can't remember now how I thought of it at first reading, hoping the worst wasn't going to happen probably, but yes, the Macbeth opening, much more subtle than the raven as a portent.
Oh, I really love Robert Frost! I’m quite the traditionalist in the poetry I read and write. I essentially go from Plath (my first love) backwards!
Oh Plath is absolutely my choice for P. Sorry, Poe, Pope, Pound and Petrarch but it's not even close...
I enjoy all those P’s, but Plath is the P for me!
I know what you mean about Frost. His is a classical style, limpid and lyrical. All three qualities that are out of style these days. I know this poem, and can't remember now how I thought of it at first reading, hoping the worst wasn't going to happen probably, but yes, the Macbeth opening, much more subtle than the raven as a portent.
I like that description 'limpid and lyrical'. There's definitely something old-fashioned about that style, yeah.
Shame that for many critics, the mark of a good poem is that it’s clear as mud and as lyrical as unrendered breeze blocks.