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Robert Frost Research Paper

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While he lived Robert Frost enjoyed the recognition as an accomplished poet. He was a multiple Pulitzer Prize recipient as well as honoree of the Congressional Gold Medal. Considered one of the finest modernist poets of the twentieth century he favored traditional poetic structure. His poems to this day are admired for the depiction of the bucolic nature of New England and his practiced use of the everyday spoken word.
Mr. Frost was born in California in 1874 later moving across the country to Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1885 after his father had passed away. Having grown up in New England from age eleven onwards it greatly influenced his body of work. However, while public fame and recognition came to him in abundance privately, in later years, he suffered a series of heartaches early on losing his father, mother to cancer, only sister who had died in a mental hospital and his daughter committed to an institution as well. Up until his death in 1963 he suffered depression although these experiences of grief, loss and isolation are painted as themes into much of his po-etry in as much as his observations in the everyday life of a New Englander. Skillfully, he poeti-cally opened a window on a humanistic world view.
Aesthetically, the context of his poems while considered modernist followed the tradi-tional pattern of meter and rhyme of the pre-modernist era. Discipline of form was very im-portant to him in the method of how he approached the art of poetry. Emerging

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