Robert Frost
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It is intriguing to consider how many of Frost’s best poems reflect on the act of creation, the process of breaking down the forms of reality given by the world and remaking them, restoring them to freshness. Frost’s aesthetics was largely derived from the Romantics, especially Coleridge, who argued in the Biographia Literaria that the imagination of the poet “dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate.” The enterprise of poetry, from Wordsworth on, was regarded as the work of defamiliarizing the familiar by freshening the vision: hence Pound’s injunction to “make it new.” For Coleridge and Wordsworth both, the chief opponent of making it new was “custom,” and the work of the poet (in Coleridge’s terminology) was to release “wonder” from the “familiar.”
-- Jay Parini, “Robert Frost: A Life”
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It is intriguing to consider how many of Frost’s best poems reflect on the act of creation, the process of breaking down the forms of reality given by the world and remaking them, restoring them to freshness. Frost’s aesthetics was largely derived from the Romantics, especially Coleridge, who argued in the Biographia Literaria that the imagination of the poet “dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate.” The enterprise of poetry, from Wordsworth on, was regarded as the work of defamiliarizing the familiar by freshening the vision: hence Pound’s injunction to “make it new.” For Coleridge and Wordsworth both, the chief opponent of making it new was “custom,” and the work of the poet (in Coleridge’s terminology) was to release “wonder” from the “familiar.”
-- Jay Parini, “Robert Frost: A Life”
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