ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the way language is used in the making of poetry in three Robert Frost poems. It discusses the ways effects are created in language and how these effects taken together create the unique experience the reader generates in listening to the poem. The chapter discusses the three Frost poems, "The Silken Tent," "Home Burial" and "I Could Give All to Time." A passionate voice in the first person is a rare event in Frost's poetry. Each of these poems is the living event that the poem addresses, whether that be a particular experience of the love of making and listening to poetry, or the struggle for and against words to bear witness to unspeakable experience. T. S. Eliot's views on poetry held enormous sway in literary circles and in academia during the period of Frost's maturity as a poet and for a decade or so afterwards.
