American poets are social critics

American poems can be considered social critics because of their references to the outside world. Robert Frost, Edwin Arlington Robinson, T.S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound can be referred to as social critics. In many of Robert Frost’s poems he talks about nature. Frost criticizes people in the world who ruin nature. An example of this would be in his poem Birches were he states, “Like girls on hands and knee that throw their hair before them over their heads to dry in the sun,” he makes the gir...