• Rafi’ Mahmood Hussein

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• Waleed Shihan Muslih

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Robert Frost (1874-1963) writes poetry in two styles. In composing short poems he
uses direct language and continuous sentences. But in his versification of long poems he
follows a particular way of writing poetry using the inflected language of a rural colloquial
dialect of New Englanders. In Frost's long poems there are irregularities in syntax. Frost
disregards the rules of the sentences. The sentences are broken and loose. They are
characterized with many qualities such as breaks, incompleteness, parentheses, colons, dashes
etc. The speaker in the poem breaks up the sentences in the lines of verse and other times the
speaker cuts his speech off to talk about other things. Moreover there are deliberate irregular
breaks of sounds within the regular beat of meter, which are constituent parts of syntax, to the
extent that some times the poem sounds as natural as actual speech. In this way Frost makes an
essential break from the more impressive style of the Victorian, Genteel, and Modernists poets.
However, the present study aims at explaining the poetic deviation in syntax in Frost's rural
poems, line of verse, impressive style and keywords and the motive behind them.

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