Since Lionel Trilling raised the issue of Robert Frost’s ‘terrifying universe,’ the question of the poet’s poetic style as a means of articulat¬ing his complex vision has received profounder critical attention. T.R.S. Sharma’s critical work is an attempt to study the stylistic features of Frost’s poetry such as metony¬my, metaphor and synecdoche, and to explore their relation with syntax and other linguis¬tic correlatives. He aims at synthesizing the critical tools of stylistic and literary criti¬cism as a mode of understand¬ing Frost’s poetry, and he succeeds partially in his objec¬tive.
Jan-Feb 1982, volume 6, No 4