The Grindstone

While the social conservatism -- even homophobia -- is present, according to Dawes this can be read as a critique of the speaker in the poem and thus the opposite.

This section has been used to argue that Frost is a social conservative. (Although not perhaps in the sense we're used to that term being used in contemporary discourse.) This is directly at odds, of course, with the notion that he is a critic of homophobia.