چکیده:
The Yankee is an American national phenomenon. He had leapt into national stature when slipped outside of his local character. A myth was woven around him and a cult of the Yankee developed by the permeation of the Yankee characteristics in many different characters who played tricks or told stories and entertained their audiences. The present article is an attempt to observe the Yankee myth, its origin, evolution and its incarnation in Robert Frost. It takes us to a journey back to the beginning of American history when the nation was about to find an identity for its own and to the native soil where its national funny figure sprang. Humor as the accommodating genre that hosts the Yankee myth is to be studied of its essence and manifestations. Frost as an icon of Yankee values representative of the mood and minds of the nation and the humor in his poems are to be focused on. The image of Frost as an American poet who very often receives appraisal for the terrifically tragic portraiture of life and whose poems are said to yield most fully to a design of darkness will be looked upon beside an image of him as the poet of many brilliantly comic poems who with serious artistic intent can give us a literate laugh. Frost’s philosophy of boundaries and borders and their worth, the optimal distance, respect to each other’s ideas, cooperation, importance of communication and many more of his universal concerns put into his poems are to be reviewed and his homey poem “Mending Wall” taken as an epitome of his works is isolated to be studied of its successful coupling of serious and comic that equip us with insights.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Research into the language of humor suggests that many comic forms are effective means of recognizing and reversing power structures, challenging social orders, allaying fear, and promoting dialogic resistance.
"Mending Wall", "An Importer," "Departmental," "Broken Drought," "lone striker", "To a Thinker", "A Hundred Collars", "Once by the Pacific," "Bereft," "Fire and Ice," "Desert Places," "Acquainted with the Night," "Bursting Rapture" are but a few to name that enjoy entertaining, yet thought-evoking touches of humor that Frost strategically used in them.
" In the case of Frost’s exploiting menacing images or situations to produce amusement; The reader of "A Hundred Collars" can at least understand why the timorous doctor would clutch at his throat when the hulking Lafe, elemental man, asks, "What size do you wear?" The speaker in "Mending Wall" can be viewed again as he finds his neighbor entertainingly obstinate, but he can also see him as "an old stone savage armed.
Frost walled himself in New England and this brought him some problems with the critics who dismissed him as "the country bumpkin whose poems did not see much beyond the ‘shining surface’ of ‘rural life’" (Parini, Jay, 1999, 183) …, else, he was accused of being an outdated, old-fashioned poet whose pastorals did not fit the progressive trends of the twentieth century.
The image of the Yankee – the American national character who was found funny- and his humor were traced in Robert Frost.