Analyzing 20th Century Poetry

• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. Robert Frost.
• Fog. Carl Sandburg.

Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening.

When this poem was written it was a large transitional period for America. We were leaving the frontier and moving to the city. This poem is one of the last that captures the wild nature side of America.

Fog.

This poem is considered one of the first American haiku's, it was one of the first to bring that style of writing to the American public.