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The poetry of Robert Frost obliquely tells us about the human predicament. It tells us about human being in the grip of alienation, despair and disillusionment. Robert Frost got the best honors from his own people but these honors could not change his outlook which had already been formed. Frost went to the extent of sayings: Every poem is an epitome of the great predicament, a figure of the will braving alien entanglements. (1) The fact is that there is little scope for happiness on this earth and if we go by what Lord Gautam Buddha said, there is no chance of being happy in this world where we live in the custody of our needs and desires. Aldous Huxley who was probably the greatest intellectual among the English novelists, has also written about the human predicament. James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and many other have very laboriously written about the human predicament. Robert Frost was the great American poet who had a very intimate knowledge of human life and this knowledge of human life made him sufficiently acquainted with the human predicament. This is why; his poetry is a veritable account of this predicament.

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Human Predicament; Alienation

1. Robert Frost: The Constant Symbol Atlantic Monthly October 1946. P 50
2. Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph 1915-1938 Lawrance Thompson: New York Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1970 P XIV.
3. Elizabeth Jennings: Frost Oliver and Boys Edinburgh and London 1964 P 22-23.
4. Elizabeth Jennings: Frost Oliver and Boys Edinburgh and London 1964 P 24.
5. The Poetry of Robert Frost: New York Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1975 P 137
6. Ibid. P 120.
7. Ibid. P 122.
8. Ibid. P 116-117.
9. Ibid. P 117.
10. Elizabeth Jennings: Frost Oliver and Boys Edinburgh and London 1964P 50.
11. Elizabeth Jennings: Frost Oliver and Boys Edinburgh and London 1964P 51-52.