C.P Snow in his Variety of Man saying very five things about Robert Frost observes "Frost was capable of acting, stripping of facades after facade like onion skins. He was sometimes a bit of a f raud". Farming his own romantic invention, many of his poems are the direct outcome of his experience as farmer. C p Snow calls him a true artist who wanted to write a great poem and be recognized as a great poet. "He letters contain many flashes ol self doubt..and the doubt gnawed very deep...often he was begging for reassurance. lt was certainly this need for reassurance that for Frost; made the award of the Nobel prize a yearly agony,,. For a long time , frost expected to get the Nobel prize and had to suffer disappointment, year after year. Snow lurther adds to his biographical sketch of Frost and admits that Frost had lived a life of rich and passionate experience. He had been through great suffering. Emotionally he had known everything, he was not a good man at all. He was neither mangnanimous nor serene..But another critic ol a higher calibre observes that "Truth has been Frosts' central passion... He has never given into the fashion of the moment in poetry or politics.
His life was lifted to a high pitch oI feeling and who has the gift of making others share his excitement. The most characteristic quality of Frosts'poetry is its simple vocabulary, ils unaffected
dicition, its lack or rhetoric. But using the language of ordinary speech he builds, haunting unforgettable phrases and lines. He makes his verses talk and sing. The pulse of his verse is time to
the heart beat oJ the world. Frosts' poems are simple. Even his rhyme' rhythm and poetic devices are son unobtrusive that a casual reader will miss them at the first reading. Frost evidently follows the dictum art lies in hiding art. His life as a tarmer afforded Frost opportunity for direct observation o, Nature and Man, and also provided him with lhe leisure needed lor calm meditation on what he observed. Frost had the knack of observing everything keenly and speculating deeply on everything observed. He could make humble things exciting. His poem is never a mere transcript of actuality. Every object through deep meditation is sublimated and made to have far reaching signilicance. Signt and institution, wisdom and whimsy - these go into his process ol verse making. lt is poetry rising out of deep personal experience of lire, expressing profoundly felt emotions and realized thoughts. lt is as he called it locative art as opposed to abstract or cosmopolitan art; it is art rooted in a place, the place
being the country side of New England.
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