Robert Frost as a Regional Poet

Name of Author : Lekshmi H

Abstract: American literary regionalism, also known as local color, is a writing style or genre that became increasingly popular in the United States from the middle to the end of the 19th century into the beginning of the 20th. The setting is extremely significant in this form of writing, which encompasses both poetry and prose, and writers frequently highlight certain aspects of a particular locale, such as dialect, customs, history, and landscape: Such a locale is likely to be rural and/or provincial. Both 19th-century realism and romanticism have an influence on regionalism, which adheres to the faithfulness of description in the narrative but also infuses the story with exotic or foreign customs, things, and people. Literary critics contend that nineteenth-century regionalism contributed to post-Civil War efforts at domestic unification as well as the preservation of American regional identities.

Keywords : Regionalism, Regional Poet, American regional identities

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