By Katherine Kearns
Robert Frost and a Poetics of urge for food reads Frost's poetry inside a theoretical standpoint generated, yet no longer restricted by way of feminist research, and it evaluates Frost's continual feminizing of poetic language in ways in which he mostly dramatizes as either erotic and humiliating. Kearns examines how Frost's twin and almost certainly conflicting obligations--to be manly and to be a poet--inform his complete poetics. The examine unites psychobiographical and feminist techniques to create an adept and creative software of interpretation.
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