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Robert Frost and Ralph Waldo Emerson are two obviously different types of writers. They both wrote during different times, Emerson during the nineteenth century, and Frost during the twentieth. Emerson and Frost had different views on the poet's role. Both auth ....

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.... show that Frost and Emerson have similarities. At a first glance the works Frost and Emerson seem to have numerous similarities. In Alvan S. Ryan's essay "Frost and Emerson: Voice and Vision" he states that Frost and Emerson "agree on the central importance of symbol and metaphor. They have a common preoccupation with rural subjects. They share basic sense of 'correspondence'. . . ."(Ryan125)Also, these two writers are similar in that they both tend to write about the same subject matter. Many of the titles of Frost's poems: "Mending Wall," "Storm-Fear," "The White- Tailed Hornet," "I Could Give All to Time," and "Spring Pool ....