Project Summary: Answer three questions. Robert Frost is perhaps the most popular American poet of the twentieth century, with some of his works known even by people who don’t know any other poetry at all. Looking at his work this week in the context of what do you think accounts for this enduring popularity? 1.Modernist poetry makes frequent use of allusions to classical literature and culture, particularly that of the ancient Greeks and Romans. List three such allusions in the poetry read this week and discuss their possible significance for readers of the early twentieth century. 2.Discuss Wallace Stevens’s jar and William Carlos Williams’s wheelbarrow. Are these images, or simply symbols? What is the distinction? If they are symbols, what are they symbols of? Do you think these poems offer similar themes? 3.Ezra Pound famously advised the poets of his day to “make it new.” What do you think he meant by this? What is “new” about his poetry?