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FROST'S FLOWERS. (ROBERT FROST)

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Date Issued:
1974
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This thesis, a study of approximately eighty Robert Frost poems in which the word flower or a specific flower appears, attempts to correlate botanical information with poetic technique. The thesis progresses along the lines of complexity and accumulation, dividing the poems into three interlocking groups based upon the flower's use. In the first stage, the flower is simply an emotional projection of the speaker. In the second more developed stage, the flower is a persona in the poem, exhibiting a force of its own which impels the speaker toward union with men. The flower, in the third and most complex stage blending the two previous characteristics, is both an emotional projection of the speaker's fears about survival and a persona of nature which teaches man about the futility of trying to subjugate or impede nature in her cyclical movement. In Frost, the flower is a positive symbol, usually serving as an intermediary or agent, which tends to be a means of union between man and nature, man and man, or man and himself.
Title: FROST'S FLOWERS. (ROBERT FROST).
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Name(s): CONFORTI, DIANE LYNNE.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Pearce, Howard D., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1974
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 92 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This thesis, a study of approximately eighty Robert Frost poems in which the word flower or a specific flower appears, attempts to correlate botanical information with poetic technique. The thesis progresses along the lines of complexity and accumulation, dividing the poems into three interlocking groups based upon the flower's use. In the first stage, the flower is simply an emotional projection of the speaker. In the second more developed stage, the flower is a persona in the poem, exhibiting a force of its own which impels the speaker toward union with men. The flower, in the third and most complex stage blending the two previous characteristics, is both an emotional projection of the speaker's fears about survival and a persona of nature which teaches man about the futility of trying to subjugate or impede nature in her cyclical movement. In Frost, the flower is a positive symbol, usually serving as an intermediary or agent, which tends to be a means of union between man and nature, man and man, or man and himself.
Identifier: 13675 (digitool), FADT13675 (IID), fau:10510 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1974.
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Subject(s): Frost, Robert,--1874-1963--Criticism and interpretation
Flowers in literature
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