The Theme of Loneliness, Isolation & Alienation in The Poems of Robert Frost

The Theme of Loneliness, Isolation & Alienation in The Poems of Robert Frost

The theme of loneliness,  isolation & alienation in the poems of Robert Frost. (toc) loneliness,  Isolation & Alienation Answer. The theme of isolation or alienation is a recurrent one in Frost's poems. The word "alienation" actually belongs to psychology. It means different things in psychology. But in regard to Frost's poetry the theme of isolation means someone's feeling of being detached from society, from the world, or even from one's own self. The term "isolation" has a close denotation with alienation, but connotatively the words are different. Isolation, properly speaking. means the process of separating or placing apart. In talking about Frost's poems, however, the terms are used almost synonymously. In Frost poetry we frequently find man isolated or alienated from his immediate environment. Even Nature appears extraneous to man's physical existence. Man is isolated from other men from a sense of fear. Man is isolated in space f…