![]() ![]() By that time, Robert Frost has achieved the status as a known and much-acclaimed poet of his era. Note that this essay was written in 1939. Many people, though, might question Frost’s authority for his assertion. This line also suggests the link between the poet’s feelings when he writes the poem and the feelings that the readers get when they read the poem-this is one of the greatest achievement that a poet can have, to be able to convey his feelings through his writings. ![]() No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader” (par. This assertion can be seen with the author’s words when he stated “no tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. Perhaps, the author is suggesting that poems are best evaluated through emotion. He also added that “scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books,” which suggests that poetry cannot be measured by logic or evaluated through the means of scholars (ibid.). 6), thus utterly suggesting that scholars and other masters of philosophy have totally different views of life, much less than art and poetry as he noted that “Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ” (par. However, Frost also made clear the distinction of the logic of scholars and artists-with the artist’s (such as poets) logic is backward (par. The author also argued that sounds are not just the only basis that makes a poem “sound”-that is, according to the rules of logic. The author’s main argument in this essay is that each poem should be unique enough to be distinguished from one another, and that they should not only be made in order to entertain the readers but to give them wisdom-that poems should “begin in delight and end in wisdom” (Frost, par. At the end of his essay, Frost asserted that poems are eternal-that they will forever bear their wisdom and truth. ![]() Frost also noted the relationship of the writer’s emotions while writing the poem and the reader’s emotion while reading the poem. The poem should also evoke its readers to discover something they previously do not know, but they actually know from the start. He mentions that all poems should be distinct from one another and should have wisdom that the readers can benefit from, not only to entertain them. Robert Frost’s essay “The Figure a Poem Makes” talks about his own perception of how poem should be and how people should view poem. ![]()
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