Jordan Erekson

Period 6

Humanities 1100

Education By Poetry

The general argument/point made by Robert Frost in his work Education By Poetry is that people today and people that are in college are not as educated as they need to be. Mainly in the field of Literature. Today we have people who don't know how to write poems and all that kind of stuff. More specifically, Frost argues/suggests that we need to teach literature as a more demanding course. College graduates are having to take night classes to catch up on the extra learning on that of literature because they are not focuses on their needed classes about it at the time. He writes “They have not been educated enough to find their way around in contemporary literature.” (pg. 48) In this passage Frost is suggesting that we take our required literature courses more serious. In conclusion, it is Frosts belief that if we take more lessons and focus more deep on our literature, that we may become more varied in our writing and looking at poems.

In my view Frost is correct in his thinking patters. He is right in my opinion because I know for a fact today that kids aren't paying as much if any attention to their literature courses as they should be. For example, I was sitting at home and my brother was reading this book and it had a very popular poem in it. My little brother came up to me and asked what it meant? At that time I knew that today we were not as focused on our studies in the literature area as we need and should be. Although, Frost might object and puts out a good point that people are not as educated today due to the fact that we don't put any effort into our teaching of literature. I maintain that we need to have better studies on the topic. Therefore, I conclude that if we are willing to study and put an effort into learning more about poetry and into our literature study that we may become learned and to know and have a greater knowledge of things in our life.