A Brook in the City


A Brook in the City

The Poem A Brook in the City
This is a specific example of Robert Frost poetry by one of America's most famous poets. This section provides a selection of different types of Robert Frost poetry including the following famous poem by Robert Frost. This section of Robert Frost poetry and poems have been selected to illustrate the great work of this famous poet. The following Robert Frost poem A Brook in the City  can be used as an interesting example of Robert Frost poetry.
 

The poem A Brook in the City
 

The firm house lingers, though averse to square
With the new city street it has to wear A number in.
But what about the brook
That held the house as in an elbow-crook?
I ask as one who knew the brook, its strength
And impulse, having dipped a finger length
And made it leap my knuckle, having tossed
A flower to try its currents where they crossed.
The meadow grass could be cemented down
From growing under pavements of a town;
The apple trees be sent to hearth-stone flame.
Is water wood to serve a brook the same?
How else dispose of an immortal force
No longer needed? Staunch it at its source
With cinder loads dumped down? The brook was thrown
Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone
In fetid darkness still to live and run -
And all for nothing it had ever done
Except forget to go in fear perhaps.
No one would know except for ancient maps
That such a brook ran water. But I wonder
If from its being kept forever under
The thoughts may not have risen that so keep
This new-built city from both work and sleep.
 

 

The Poem A Brook in the City - Example of Robert Frost Poetry
Poetry written such as the poem A Brook in the City is a piece of literature written by the American poet Robert Frost in meter or verse expressing various emotions which are expressed by the use of variety of techniques including metaphors, similes and onomatopoeia. The emphasis on the aesthetics of language and the use of techniques such as repetition, meter and rhyme are what are commonly used to distinguish Robert Frost poetry from Robert Frost prose. Poems often make heavy use of imagery and word association to quickly convey emotions. A famous example of Robert Frost poetry is the poem A Brook in the City.

The Poem A Brook in the City - Example of Structure of Robert Frost Poetry
The structure used in an Robert Frost poem varies with different types of poetry and can be seen in the above example of the poem A Brook in the City. The structural elements might include the line, couplet, strophe and stanza. Robert Frost Poetry combines the use of language and a specific structure to create an imaginative and expressive poem such as A Brook in the City . The structure used in some Poetry types are also used when considering the visual effect of a finished poem.
 

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