Question

compare and contrast the use of imagery in the poetry of Robert Frost and Wallace stevens​

Answer 1

The use of imagery in the poetry of Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens :

•Wallace Stevens used to write lush and elegantly textured poems. He was not considered a good poet by the critical world for this reason .

•But he had also earned respect for his ironies, skepticism,rich and his intricacy of his vision in poetry.

•Robert Frost" poetry included some idealism and he used many comparisons in his poetry that enables the reader to think in many perspectives.

•Nature is the most important theme in used in Robert Frost"s poetry.

Answer 2

Use of imagery in the poetry of 'Robert Frost' and 'Wallace Stevens'​ =

• Frost uses vivid symbolical imagery and metaphors through out his poems through which reader can easily interpret what he wants to convey.
• His images are mostly natural and realistic eg. Birch.Being a nature lover and the way he depicts nature is very close to that of the Romantics, though he is much famous as nihilist and pragmatist.
• On the other hand, modernist poet Stevens' poetry is an oscillation between imagination and reality.
• According to him, reality is an activity and imagination is the prior step to reality and a poet is supposed to act as a mediator between the two.
• Unlike Frost's conversational colloquial language, Steven uses linguistic in depth to emphasize his poetry.
• Frost's consciously careless, jargon free poetry in the garb of stark metaphor and symbolism thus is at contrast with Wallace Stevens' poetry which is difficult to read as well as interpret as he changes his reference of words time to time.