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Kang, Shinwook. “Rereading Robert Frost’s Best Poems: Focusing on Dualism.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 40.3 (2014): 1-25. Of all the major twentieth-century American poets, Robert Frost is “the most well known, the most public, and the least understood.” The main reason of such a phenomenon is that Frost valued above all else in his poetry what he called “the pleasure of ulteriority” which means “saying one thing and meaning another, saying one thing in terms of another.” In addition to it, his peculiar philosophical position called dualism dominates his writing and thinking. So his poems usually challenge readers with their uncertainty, ambiguity, and multiplicity. Therefore, it is very important to reread his best poems based on his dualism including his metaphorical poetics if we want to appreciate his poems correctly and put him in the right place in the American poetic history. (Chonbuk National University)