Robert Frost and Ralph Waldo Emerson are two obviously different types of writers. They both wrote during different times, Emerson during the nineteenth century, and Frost during the twentieth. Emerson and Frost had different views on the poet's role. Both authors views were characteristic relating to the different time period in which each of them wrote. In Alvan S. Ryan's essay "Frost and Emerson: Voice and Vision" he writes "There is nothing about Frost's Conception of the role of a poet that is close to Emerson's."(Ryan126) Emerson and ....