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Robert Frost and the End of Poetry

Among the themes that seem most central and abiding in the work of Robert Frost is the poet’s self-evaluation in comparison to prior poets; another—related, as I’ll hope to show—is his preoccupation with making art out of what would have struck many of those predecessors as scanty and unpromising materials. History and diminishment: these are the entangled matters we’ll need to explore, as I believe Frost persistently did. And to bring things into sharper focus, we should probably begin with what we might call the history of diminishment. To that end, here is one of Frost’s most memorable and probing poems, first published in 1923 in the collection New Hampshire: