Frost, By Robert Frost

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.

Robert Frost is a pastoral poet. His love for rural life revealed in his work. He incorporates major themes: one's life choices, isolation, and nature in his works.

The existence of poetry as an artform predates literacy itself. Over the course of history, poetry grew from a verbal form of art, existing mainly in religious hymns, to becoming the universal “language of the heart”. The work of William Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe, some of the most notable poets of history, has resonated with generations of Americans. Although they lived in a Pre-industrial world, their work remains powerful because the themes expressed in their artwork can still be applied to modern society. On the contrary, protruding among this group of ancient poets is Robert Frost, whose modern work remains just as powerful, shaping generations through his questions of existence, and depiction of loneliness in an indifferent universe. One of Frost's most celebrated poems: The Road Not Taken, is influential not only in the literary world, but also within American culture. The poems subsequent ripple through American life is analyzed by David Orr In his essay The Most Misread Poem in America. Here, Orr argues that the misread of The Road Not Taken magnifies the underlying issues in society’s understanding of both Frost and poetry as a whole.

Dana Gioia argues in this analytical essay that Robert Frost was a narrative poet who left a modernist narrative legacy by writing ballads, linear narratives, dramatic monologues, and dramatic narratives. She provides a thorough description of Frost’s book North of Boston, and she describes the effects the book has had on the way poetry is now written. Gioia states that Frost’s ballads represent the weakest body of his poetic work. She also considers the language in Frost’s linear narratives as “modern and conversational” (4). Gioia makes visible that Frost typically avoided dramatic monologues. She attributes this to Frost’s tendency to write more modernistic poetry. Dramatic narratives are an important category of Frost’s poetry, and Gioia considers this category the largest and most original. She vividly

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.

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.,

Often a poet’s greatest work comes from life experiences. This may be partially due to the realness of the experience and the hearer’s ability to relate. This effect of relating to an author can be accomplished with themes and tone of a poem. A poet’s “attitude” can also be expressed through the similes and metaphors that he or she uses. Robert Frost is a poet whose attitude and beliefs about life show through his poems. He has been described as a romantic due to his themes, but that may be inaccurate due to the complexity and depth of his work. With a further understanding of the history of the author a new idea of him may be realized. Robert Frost’s history, lifestyle, and outlook influenced his work; this is shown when he attributes the relationship between man and the universe with alienation, nature, and death.

In the early 1920s Robert Lee Frost wrote one of his most intriguing poems, “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” in 1922 which was later published in 1923. The poem, simply put, being about a man walking through the woods on a snowy evening admiring the surroundings. However, at a closer look, Frost’s poem is a lot more meaningful than just a story about a patch of snow on some bark, it is a story about nature and isolation. It involves a lot of emotions, themes, symbols, and unique writing styles that make it one of Frost’s most galvanizing

While Frost’s poem is highly relatable to every individual that reads it, it is also important because of the mind frame and life of Frost when he composed it. While many individuals believe that the poem offers a profound message on life and the choices that we make, the reality is that the poem is meant to be taken much more openly. It is a reflection of all the decisions we make without placing too much meaning into them. In 1914, Britain had declared war on Germany forcing Frost to flee to his home of England. At this time Robert Frost had formed a strong bond with fellow writer Edward Thomas. Prior to the war, the two companions had plans to move to America together. However Thomas, an indecisive man, was unable to choose between staying or

Poetry is a literary medium which often resonates with the responder on a personal level, through the subject matter of the poem, and the techniques used to portray this. Robert Frost utilises many techniques to convey his respect for nature, which consequently makes much of his poetry relevant to the everyday person. The poems “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ and “The mending wall” strongly illuminate Frost’s reverence to nature and deal with such matter that allows Frost to speak to ordinary people.

Robert Frost is the author of Out Out--, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, and Nothing Gold can Stay. His literary work communicates deep meaning through the use of metaphoric language and deception. Being raised most of his life on a farm; his works perceive the natural life of a normal person while out in nature. “Frost believes that the emphasis on everyday life allows him to communicate with his readers more clearly; they can empathize with the struggles and emotions that are expressed in his poems and come to a greater understanding of ‘Truth’ themselves” (Robert Frost: Poems Themes).

Robert Frost said many times throughout his life that all men share a common bond. In his poem “The Tuft of Flowers” he analyzes the potential of such a bond, in first person. Frost turns an everyday common job, into discovering a common bond with another laborer. The author uses a comparison between aloneness with a sense of understanding to demonstrate his theme of unity between two men. In another one of Frost’s poems “Birches” he imagines walking through the woods looking at all the trees, and seeing the top bending towards the ground. When he sees this he imagines they are bending from kids swinging on them, rather then what is really happening to them. It can be analyzed that Frost had a very definitive appreciation for nature, and a very broad imagination.

Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco. When his father died, he moved to Massachusetts with his family to be closer to his grandparents. He loved to stay active through sports and activities such as trapping animals and climbing trees. He married his co- valedictorian, Elinor Miriam White, in 1895. He dropped out of both Dartmouth and Harvard in his lifetime. Robert and Elinor settled on a farm in Massachusetts which his grandfather bought him, and it was one of the many farms on which he would live in throughout his life. Frost spend the next 9 years writing poetry while poultry farming. When poultry farming didn’t work out, he went back to teaching English. He moved to England in 1912 and became friends with many people who were also in the writing business. After moving back to America in 1915, Frost bought a farm in New Hampshire and began reading his poems aloud at public

Robert Frost’s nature poetry occupies a significant place in the poetic arts; however, it is likely Frost’s use of nature is the most misunderstood aspect of his poetry. While nature is always present in Frost’s writing, it is primarily used in a “pastoral sense” (Lynen 1). This makes sense as Frost did consider himself to be a shepherd.

The great debate of whether the world will end in a fiery ball of destruction or a frozen wasteland has baffled the minds of many people. A man named Robert Frost has written a poem called "Fire and Ice" that describes his thoughts on how he would prefer to leave this world. Upon reading this poem, the reader can derive two distinct meanings of fire and ice; one being of actual fire and ice destroying the world, and the other having symbols for the fire and ice, such as fire being desire or passion and ice being hatred and deceit. Although this poem is one of his shortest poems with only nine lines, it is also one of the most famous works that he has ever created.