The secretive-playful epiphanies of Robert Frost: solitude, companionship, and the ambivalent imagination.(Critical Essay) From: Papers on Language & Literature | Date: June 22, 2002| Author: Bidney, Martin | COPYRIGHT 2002 Southern Illinois University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Surprisingly, no one has yet tried to find a pattern that can unify the major epiphanies in the poems of Robert Frost; no study of the poet in the last thirty-five years even contains any variant of "epiphany" in its title (though Robert F. Fleissner invokes the related "spot of time" (1)). I seek here to identify the pattern of thematic focuses, recurrent formal features, and psychological implications unique to Frost's epiphanic style or "signature," his distinctive manner of epi...

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