A Modern Artist's Craft Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens

In any work of art, an artist is trying to tie the reality that we all experience to an object spawned in creativity. The artist looks to produce something that does not spell a meaning or message out to the interpreter but allows them to interpret that thing on their own. In Robert Frost's "The Oven Bird," Frost uses a bird to represent an artist and illustrates the paradox in creating modern art. This same …

…magnificence of modern art, which uses symbol and metaphor to offer an individual experience to each observer instead of forcing a similar meaning into each of our minds. Once one realizes the message of these poems it is hard to interpret them, because you realize that this essay is simply an individual interpretation of a piece of art, not an absolute meaning, and that another observer might have a totally different experience of these poems.