Traditional Principles on Modern Life: Comparing the Poetry of Jeffers and Frost Sidrath Ahmed 10th Grade

Poets Robinson Jeffers and Robert Frost were early modernist poets who had strong feelings towards nature and believed people should act accordingly to keep it safe. The poems "Carmel Point" and "Shine, Perishing Republic" by Jeffers show his inhumanism philosophy through the use of nature and imagery. In "Carmel Point," he emphasizes that people should separate themselves from society, should isolate themselves from their minds to understand nature. In "Shine, Perishing Republic," he shows his extreme frustration with the ongoing corruption of nature and the ongoing denial of nature in corrupt societies. The poems "The Road Not Taken" and "After Apple-Picking" by Robert Frost show his philosophy on individualism through an emphasis on nature and imagery. In "The Road Not Taken," FROST CREATES A speaker’s sad frustration over which road to take, and how he continues to doubt his decision. In "After Apple-Picking," he shows how the speaker demonstrates his utmost neglect and frustration towards his most desired job and regrets for the decision he made. Although Jeffers and Frost both express the value of man’s acquaintance with nature in their poems, their use of modernist topics has different purposes because of their humane...