Rather, Frost wants to use daily life as the starting point for deeper discovery.
Frost’s poetry is often misinterpreted as overly simplistic or indulgently scenic, but both of these assumptions only scratch its surface. Rather, Frost wants to use daily life as the starting point for deeper discovery. Unlike some of the modernist poets emerging during his career, Frost maintained relatively traditionalist forms in his verse. Frost once said that a poem “begins in delight and ends in wisdom”–perhaps the reason that he is still so popular amongst schoolteachers and their pupils.