The Figure a Poem Makes

Robert Frost is a poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry more than one time throughout his career. He is very highly respected in the literary world and considered to be one of the best ports so far. Although he is famous for poetry, he also wrote a very insightful essay called, The Figure a Poem Makes in 1939. It is written to his fellow poets (hence the use of the word we throughout the essay) about how a poem should be written. He uses hyperbolas to show that poems must be written wildly and naturally so that it will," run itself and [carry] the poet with it", so it's always loved. Of course a poem does not literally run off with its creator but it does show that the poem is in control of the direction it is going. The poet must let the poem take its intended course rather than try to control it. Mr. Frost also uses different types of figure of speech such as when he says that, "like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting" (Frost 178), to show how one must leave the course of the poem up to the poem itself because that is what he wanted to tell people. He feels that a poem must be wild in order to be worth reading or writing. Using these types of rhetoric devices makes the idea that poems must be written on their own accord very understandable. It also makes it seem as though the only correct way to write a poem is to let go of a person's hold on the poem and let it take the writer somewhere special so it is going to take the reader to a special place too. Robert Frost's The Figure a Poem Makes is a very well written essay. 

Flying Poem

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