The political form of expression has long found a friend in poetry - and has always found a friend in Robert Frost. The poem is a polemic against relying upon the ethereal and intangible to secure one's place within the world. Politically, then, Robert Frost was a democratic conservative or, if you please, a conservative Democrat. Few other political poems can match that admonition. The imagery of the poem is vivid. Frost's economy of words gives us an emotional image that is painful and unavoidable. 3 pgs. Bibliography lists 1 source.
