How Are Fact And fancy Blended in Frost’s Poetry?

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How are fact and fancy blended in Frost's poetry Robert Frost - beautifully joins fact reality and fancy imagination in his poems His poems begin with simple real-life scenes from nature or rural life But soon they take us to deeper thoughts about human life This balance makes his poetry realistic yet thoughtful Simple Real Scenes In Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening the scene is very real and factual A man stops by the woods on a snowy night while his horse waits The woods are filled with snow He says Whose woods these are I think I know The woods snow and cold are all facts of rural life But at the same time the poet s feelings bring fancy into the poem He feels peace and beauty in the dark woods The man feels the woods are calling him to rest perhaps for eternal rest This

dreamlike feeling shows Frost s imagination Imagination in Everyday Work In Mowing Frost again starts with a real moment a farmer cutting grass in the field But when he hears his scythe whispering it becomes magical My long scythe whispering to the ground The scythe seems alive It whispers secrets of hard work Here fact farm work and fancy talking scythe are blended together It shows Frost s deep love for nature and imagination Reality Mixed with Thought In The Oven Bird the poet listens to a small bird singing about the changing seasons The bird is real but its song makes the poet think about human life loss and time The poet thinks that time passes beauty fades and youth turns to old age Frost turns a real sound of nature into a symbol of human truth In conclusion Frost s poetry joins fact and fancy in a perfect way He begins with real-life scenes but fills them with imagination and wisdom

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