What was unique in Frosts approach to poetry?
Frost started writing poetry at the end of the 19th century in the late Victorian period. He, along with others, wanted to reform poetic language away from the stilted, archaic diction used by his predecessors. Frost believed ordinary conversation could be poetic. However, when it came to form and structure, Frost was a traditionalist. He wrote rhymed verse and blank verse, but never free verse. He said, “I would sooner write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
