Saying Robert Frost “won” because he was the most acclaimed, to neglect the critiques and “bashing” he faced dismisses his influence while promoting the “Frost bashing”. M Wallace Stevens, another poetry monolith alongside Robert Frost, passed away before Frost with a ruined reputation.  The last 27 years of his life were garnished with incarceration, critique of his pro-Fascist behaviour and exile. 

                Many view Frost as a foolish or eccentric old man that provided tedious moralizing lectures.  His witty remarks can cause readers to miss his “complex emotional topographies”.  Frost’s “The Death of the Hired Man” uses the closeness and essence if Shakespearean poetry, such as lengthy dialogue, nineteenth century lyricism and descriptive passages.  The New England dialect used is unorthodox to his typical readers but the dialogue eventually transforms into a “magical layering of rhythm…[that]..sings”

                Robert Frost worked diligently to become a skilled and respected leader in the realm of poetry but eventually began to wear under the expectations of such a title.  Before wearing or “chafing” though, Robert Frost produced a body of works that dispensed wisdom. 

 

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E.E. Cummings uniquely created language that blended words with sensory impressions to define the moments he created. Cummings made his readers navigate, on his terms, through his intricate writing styles. His poem R-P-O-P-H-E-S-S-A-G-R emphasizes his style of short hand writing by dismantling words, stripping them to barely speak able pieces. Through Cumming’s lens, the cast supplied over poetry through Langston Hughes alongside the adjustments by John Berryman become visible along the spectrum of dismantled language of poetry