Robert Frost has often been criticized for being too accessible. Those who do so evidently believe that the poetic art must be incomprehensible to be worthwhile. It seems to me that the opposite is true - that the best poetry communicates the most clearly. Frost's poetry is simply and unpretentiously written, but dense with humanity and emotion. Frost's poems tell stories without becoming lengthy or pompous, and his stories revolve around very human situations. His work is full of small observations that make his poetry real. Though many people dismiss reading poetry because they find it uninteresting or (worse) reminiscent of high school English class, Frost is neither dull nor a forced march through the so-called 'classics of Western Literature'.
