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 He has appealed to readers
worldwide with his impulsive utterances, clarity of diction, lyricism and the significance he imparted to
man.


poetry is usually a short poem expressing personal thoughts and feelings. It is meditative and
is spoken by a single speaker about his feelings for a person, object, event or idea. The essential
feature of a lyric is its musicality, and a lyric achieves its musical effects by traditional
techniques of meter, rhyme, and stanzaic patterns.Frost not only extended the subject-matter of
lyric-poetry but also brought extraordinary sophistication and originality to it. Vrost's poems
exhibit a realistic approach-a conglomeration of the metaphysical and the symbolic. Poems like "Mending
Wall" and "Birches" exemplify that a poem must begin in delight and end in wisdom.

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 Stylistically Vrost¶s poems are excellent. The birch trees are transformed to girls on hands
and knees rendering the imagery coherent and convincing. The stanzas are in blank verse; and are
concise and precise for the situation. As Mr.Bower asserts the voice has an upward and downward
movement re-enacting the movement of thought. The verses move as the birches do in perfect
synchronization. The temperament of the two poems differ: while "Birches" hinges on Vrost's philosophy,
"Mending Wall" is a subtle criticism of a social and psychological barrier.
His statements are proverbial, anti-thetical and thought-provoking. The influence of his being a poet and a
teacher are prevalent in the poems as they aesthetic, and also aim for moral upliftment.His purpose is
only to make the natural seem more natural with a unique insight.