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How Did Robert Frost's Life Affect His Work?

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In 1912, Frost and Elinor decided to sell the farm in New Hampshire and move the family to England, where they hoped there would be more publishers willing to take a chance on new poets. Within two months of his arrival in England, Frost placed his first book of poems, A Boy's Will (1913) with a small London publisher, David Nutt (Pritchard). From this first book, such poems as “Storm Fear,” “The Tuft of Flowers,” and “Mowing” became standard anthology pieces (Gerber). It was also at this time that Frost met fellow poets Ezra Pound and Edward Thomas, two men who would affect his life in significant ways. Pound and Thomas were the first poets to review his work positively and provide significant approval as well as encouragement in his writings. A year later North of Boston was published in 1914 and introduced some of the most popular poems in all of Frost’s work, which are “Mending Wall,” “The Death of the Hired Man,” “Home Burial,” and “After Apple-Picking.” In London, Frost’s name was frequently mentioned by those who followed the course of modern literature, and soon American visitors were returning to the United States talking about this unknown poet who was causing sensation in England. The time Frost spent in England was one of the most significant periods in his life that provided him with the start of a great career, but …show more content…

“Home Burial,” for example, talks about the overwhelming grief after the death of a child which is something that Frost experienced in his actual life. “Fire and Ice,” considers the apocalyptic end of the world and debates whether it should end in fire or ice but comes to the conclusion that any of the two will serve the purpose successfully. Some of his poems, such as “The Oven Bird,” are made up of a complex and difficult rhyme scheme, proving that Frost did use more than the traditional rhyme scheme. Frost could adjust his writings and had great skill with his

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