Lectures (Video)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Robert Frost
- 3. Robert Frost (cont)
- 4. William Butler Yeats
- 5. William Butler Yeats (cont)
- 6. William Butler Yeats (cont) III
- 7. World War I Poetry in England
- 8. Imagism
- 9. Ezra Pound
- 10. T. S. Eliot
- 11. T. S. Eliot (cont)
- 12. T. S. Eliot (cont) III
- 13. Hart Crane
- 14. Hart Crane (cont)
- 15. Langston Hughes
- 16. William Carlos Williams
- 17. Marianne Moore
- 18. Marianne Moore (cont)
- 19. Wallace Stevens
- 20. Wallace Stevens (cont)
- 21. Wallace Stevens (cont) III
- 22. W. H. Auden
- 23. W. H. Auden (cont)
- 24. Elizabeth Bishop
- 25. Elizabeth Bishop (cont)
Modern Poetry - Lecture 3
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Lecture 3 - Robert Frost (cont)
In this second lecture on the poetry of Robert Frost, the poet's use of iambic pentameter in "Birches" is discussed. Frost's anti-modernity is evidenced in his interest in rural New England culture and his concern with the lives of laborers in "Home Burial." The failure of humanity to work real change is sardonically depicted in "Provide, Provide," but a hopeful vision of the power of imagination is presented in the final lines of the late poem, "Directive."
Prof. Langdon Hammer
Modern Poetry, Spring 2007 (Yale University: Open Yale) http://oyc.yale.edu Date accessed: 2009-11-08 License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA |
