How Did Robert Frost's Life Affect His Poetry

Authors write poetry for many reasons including to prove a point, share life stories or to just make the reader think. Robert Frost is a great example of a poet influenced by his experiences. These influences show up in most of his poetry, but especially in “The Road Not Taken”, “Stopping by Woods On a Snowy Evening”, and “Birches”. Moving to the New England region the nature and people helped him become a poet of worldly fame.

Throughout the poem, Frost uses a combination of tones to compose his points across.Going back to the first stanza, the traveler is very alert and contemplates on which crossroads to take. The persona feels unfortunate and sorry that he is not able to take both alleys; "Sorry I could not travel both". This line also reveals how in life, sometimes you can’t have everything and have to eliminate the negative things as possible.In the third stanza, the tone shift and the traveler change his mind and feels confident. The exclamation mark (!) in line 13 shows that he is certain with his decision by telling the readers that he'll doubt if he should ever come back. Frost’s tone helps readers understand the true meaning of the poem.

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” Robert Frost might have said this to other people but it mainly refers to him. Robert Frost’s poetry was different because of why he started writing, what techniques he used in The Road Not Taken, and how his life impact his poems.

Robert Frost was an inspirational poet, he had some hard times in his life but in a way it has helped him in his writing. some of his most famous poems are The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Fire and Ice, Nothing Gold Can Stay, A Question. Frost time period was the modernist period which was from 1910-1965. All events that happen in a person's life could have an effect on them either positive or negative way. Robert Frost's past had an affect on his writing.

Robert Frost’s poetry is in between the lines of modern poetry and 19th century works. In most of his poetry, he uses simple meter and verse. Frost believed that the form of a poem showed the context, therefore his poems were written in simple form to show conversation and interaction in most cases. Also, he believed that the writer and the thinker be set apart. In a 1932 letter to Sydney Cox, Frost explained his conception of poetry: “The objective idea is all I ever cared about. Most of my ideas occur in verse.... To be too subjective with what an artist has managed to make objective is to come on him presumptuously and render ungraceful what he in pain of his life had faith he had made graceful.” In this, Frost is showing the need of two directions in poems, the artist point and one from the emotional point, which he establishes in most of his works.

Robert Frost was born in San Francisco California in 1874, March 26. His poems were inspired by British poets and also inspired by nature. Many of his poems and quotes have a deep meaning to them and it has made me wonder what people of today’s era think Robert Frost’s poems and quotes mean. Back in 1913 when Robert Frost first published his book of poems, society was still religious. Many of the people back then were focused on God’s messages and this has an effect on how people could have interpreted his work.

Robert Frost was a profound American poet who remains influential to this day. His versatility of theme, and his ability to relate to the human condition makes his work timeless. His simplistic writing style has made him accessible to generations of students. Much of his writing was motivated by the many tragedies he endured beginning with the death of his father and including the deaths of of his own children and his wife who died of cancer.

Conclusively, Frost uses multiple literary devices to create a more easily understood piece. Frost clearly depicts a real life situation in this poem by creating a problem involving decision making. Frost begins the poem by showing two roads, both covered in leaves. Both paths appear to be worn at about the same condition, but Frost cannot decide whether or not one road is better than another. He expresses his decision making process by elaborating on how he still would like to keep the first path for another day. However, he changes ideas and states how his decision that he took with the less traveled path was life-changing. The extended metaphor allows the reader to understand the figurative meaning of the roads, and apply them to real-life

The poetry of Robert Frost made him to be quintessentially recognized as one of the most influential writers in American poetry. As a poet, he received multiple awards such as four Pulitzer Prizes and over twenty-five honorary degrees from schools including Harvard, Princeton, Oxford, and Cambridge University. Later in his life as poet, he became renowned enough to be ask to read one of his poem at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. His life seem to be lined with success and fame where he could be known as the official American poet. Yet as Frost life seem to be filled with the greatness, he as a person suffered a great amount due to the multiple family deaths and struggled for a long period of time before he could become a recognized

Juan Avalos Professor Searl English 102 – ITV 25 November 2014 Paper 5 Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. He is, without a doubt, one of the greatest poets in American history. Frost used a traditional style and candidly opposed the free verse style. His poetry is deceptively simple, customarily employing colloquial expression that proceeds just as readily as speech and applying a conventional style similar to that of Carl Sandberg, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allen Poe (Roberts & Zweig 2008). Frost 's vivid depictions, and his use of metaphors relate to conceptualizing everyday life by utilizing a perspective of specific interest to explore obscured philosophical and secular subject interests. He manages to take the reader through metaphoric interpretations of daily life by regularly associating man 's connection with nature by employing metaphors. Metaphors, in my opinion, are to poetry what color is to nature. The reader is left with a melancholy when deprived of metaphors. Frost 's first poem, "La Noche Triste," was published in 1890 for his high school newspaper at the Lawrence High School. He graduated in 1892 and was co-valedictorian with his future wife, Elinor Miriam White. Frost enrolled at Dartmouth University and Harvard, but did not earn a formal college degree. Although, Frost 's first paid poem, "My Butterfly," was published in 1894, he had struggled to find a publisher interested in his work. William Prescott Frost Jr.,

Robert Frost’s poetic techniques serve as his own “momentary stay against confusion,” or as a buffer against mortality and meaninglessness in several different ways; in the next few examples, I intend to prove this. Firstly, however, a little information about Robert Frost and his works must be provided in order to understand some references and information given.

Robert Frost, who died in 1963 at the age of 88, is one of the most cherished American poets. Over the course of his long career he achieved a level of fame and popularity that few poets other have seen and his works continue to have an impact on readers today. He loved the New England countryside and lived there for many

The literary era in which Robert Frost wrote was the modernism era. This era was a time when poets, and artists in general, were starting to rebel against the “normal” way to write

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words,” Robert Frost once said. As is made fairly obvious by this quote, Frost was an adroit thinker. It seems like he spent much of his life thinking about the little things. He often pondered the meaning and symbolism of things he found in nature. Many readers find Robert Frost’s poems to be straightforward, yet his work contains deeper layers of complexity beneath the surface. These deeper layers of complexity can be clearly seen in his poems “ The Road Not Taken”, “Fire and Ice”, and “Birches”.

Robert Frost is perhaps one of America's best poets of his generation. His vivid images of nature capture the minds of readers. His poems appear to be simple, but if you look into them there is a lot of insight. Robert Frost spoke at John F. Kennedy's inauguration. He is the only poet to have had the opportunity to speak at a presidential inauguration. Through his poetry people learn that Robert Frost is a complicated and intellectual man who has a place in many American hearts. (Richards P.10)