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Robert Frost and Ralph Waldo Emerson are two obviously different
types of writers. They both wrote during different times, Emerson during
the nineteenth century, and Frost during the twentieth. Emerson and Frost
had different views on the poet's role. Both authors views were
characteristic relating to the different time period in which each of them
wrote. In Alvan S. Ryan's essay "Frost and Emerson: Voice and Vision" he
writes "There is nothing about Frost's Conception of the role of a poet
that is close to Emerson's."(Ryan126) Emerson and Frost both had different
writing styles, as again described in Alvan S. Ryan's essay Frost and
Emerson: Voice and Vision he says " Whereas Emerson prefers to be
suggestive, to develop a few images or a series of briefly sketched scenes,
Frost characteristically structures a poem around a single symbolic event.
Emerson's unifying principle is ideational, Frost's metaphorical."(Ryan127)
Both of these writers have their differences as all writers do. A close
look at their works will show that Frost and Emerson have similarities.
At a first glance the works Frost and Emerson seem to have numerous
similarities. In Alvan S. Ryan's essay "Frost and Emerson: Voice and
Vision" he states that Frost and Emerson "agree on the central importance
of symbol and metaphor.
They have a common preoccupation with rural subjects. They share
basic sense of 'correspondence'. . . ."(Ryan125)Also, these two writers are
similar in that they both tend to write about the same subject matter.
Many of the titles of Frost's poems: "Mending Wall," "Storm-Fear," "The
White- Tailed Hornet," "I Could Give All to Time," and "Spring Pools" are
similar to the titles of some of Emerson's poems: "The Snow- Storm," "Give
All to Love," "Two Rivers,"...
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