Rizka Elfira : The Moral Values In Some Of Robert Frost’s Poems, 2010.
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of Analysis
Literature is a world that full of beauty. In literary works, we can find human emotions, such as happiness, sadness, love, worry, and etc. Emotions represent the
essential part of literary works and written in an artistic way. The writers of literature express their thought, feelings, emotions and attitudes towards life Sinha, 1977:1.
Beside beauty, literature is also a reflection of someone’s experience and this experience makes the literary works interesting. Literature is writing which expresses
and communication thoughts, feelings and attitudes toward life. Literature is supposed to be an imaginative creation which is far from factual truth.
In literature, there are three majors groups or genre. They are novel, drama and poetry. Each of them has much in common though they are rather different in form.
Novel is a narrative kind of fictitious writing and drama is aimed at presenting on the stage. While poetry is the expression of imaginative experience, valid, simply, such as
communicable given by language which employ every available and appropriate device.
Sometimes defining poetry is difficult because the meaning has varied from one place to another. Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1890 said that poetry is the rhythmical
creation of beauty. Its sole arbiter is with intellectual or with the conscious it has only collateral relation, unless incidentally it has no concern with truth and beauty. And
Rizka Elfira : The Moral Values In Some Of Robert Frost’s Poems, 2010.
according to Robert Frost, poetry is a rhythmical composition of words expressing attitude, designed to surprise and delight and to arouse an emotional response
Kennedy, 1978:5. In this thesis, I would like to analyze some of Robert Frost’s poems about
despair in human’s life. Despair is to be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation. Despair has a close relation with human life; everyone in this world
should have passed this step before he gets the true happiness. While Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California in March 26, 1874 and he was an American poet. He
is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. Many of his poems deal with the human life and
commonly use the simple words in natural fact as the characteristic for a poet from the first 20
th
century. Therefore I have made them as the reasons to analyze Robert Frost’s poems.
1.2 The Problems of The Analysis
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