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The secretive-playful epiphanies of Robert Frost: solitude, companionship, and the ambivalent imagination.(Critical Essay)

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From: Papers on Language & Literature
Date: 20020622
Author:Bidney, Martin

Surprisingly, no one has yet tried to find a pattern that can unify the major epiphanies in the poems of Robert Frost; no study of the poet in the last thirty-five years even contains any variant of "epiphany" in its title (though Robert F. Fleissner invokes the related "spot of time" (1)). I seek here to identify the pattern of thematic focuses, recurrent formal features, and psychological implications unique to Frost's epiphanic style or "signature," his distinctive manner of epiphany-making.(2) Two thematic concerns distinguish the strongest poetic epiphanies of Robert Frost: ...

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