Robert Frost is a well know American poet born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874. Robert's father, William Prescott Frost Jr., a Harvard educated man, who decides to bring his wife and children to California in order to pursue a dream in politics and journalism (Kerly). Robert's father dies of tuberculosis in 1885. Soon after the death of his father, Robert and his mother, Isabelle, move to Derry, New Hampshire where Frost and his family live in a barn from 1900 to 1909 (Kerly). Robert graduates as class poet and co-valedictorian from Lawrence High School in Massachusetts. He then attends Dartmouth University for a semester but drops out to take classes at Harvard University but does not get a degree (Kerly). After reading Robert's poem's, one may see his writing style as being far from simple, his literature being full of symbolic meanings, a great deal of imagery, and unique writing patterns that many easily understand and relate to. As a result, he receives many awards.
Several of his books of verse won a Pulitzer Prize: New Hampshire: A Poem With Notes and Grace Notes; A Further Range; A Witness Tree; and Collected Poems. Amy Lowell, an American poet and critic to whom Frost turned for support and favor early in his career,2 called him "one of the most intuitive" poets of the day3 and noted that "[h]e sees much, . . . both into the hearts of persons, and into the qualities of scenes. (March)
Robert Frost is popular because of his ability to capture imagination and consciousness in his poetry (Michael). There are plenty of poems Frost wrote that express this, such as: Range-Finding, A Cliff Dwelling, and The Road Not Taken. The Road Not Taken, is considered one of his most symbolic poems. The two pathways in the yell...
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“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is often misinterpreted. For many years to come, people are going to read this poem by Robert Frost and one of many things will happen. The reader will either misinterpret or misunderstand the poem itself, and its’ sense of irony does not help either.
Poetry is a form of art in which an exclusive arrangement and choice of words help bring about a desired emotional effect. Robert Frost said that a poem is formed when “an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” His popular poem, "The Road Not Taken," like any other poem, has as many interpretations as it has readers. Using rhetorical analysis, one can break down the meaning(s) of this seemingly simple poem.
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. It was one of the many farms on which he would live in throughout his lifetime. Frost spent the next 9 years writing poetry while poultry farming. When poultry farming did not 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 gatherings. Out of the blue, he suddenly had many family disasters. Frost’s youngest daughter and wife died and his son committed suicide, soon after which another daughter institutionalized. Darker poetry, su...
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Robert Frost wrote many poems; however, one of his most popular themes involved isolation. The poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
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Robert Frost was born in 1874 and died in 1963. During his years of living Frost, wrote 105 poems including; The Road Not Taken, Mending Wall, Stars, and A Time to Talk (Best Famous Robert Frost Poems) and many more. While Frost was in his early and late twenties he attended school at Dartmouth University, only to return home and have unsatisfactory jobs, and Harvard University, where he had to drop out after two years due to health concerns. He married Elinor White on December 19, 1895, together they had four children but only two were able to live into adulthood. In 1912, Frost and Elinor decided to move their family to England, where Frost met Edward Thomas. It has been said, that Frost and Thomas would
Perhaps one of the most well-known poems in modern America is a work by Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken. This poem consists of four stanzas that depict the story of the narrator traveling through the woods early in the morning and coming upon a fork in the path, where he milled about for a while before deciding upon one of the two paths, wishing he could take both, but knowing otherwise, seeing himself telling of this experience in the future.
Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” provide us contrasting and sometimes similar glimpses of life. “The Road Not Taken” is about taking control and living life. “Stopping by Woods on Snowy Evening” entails the desire for rest, perhaps due to the speaker’s feelings of weariness from facing life’s struggles. The poet also explains the tough choices people stand before when traveling the road of life. Sometimes people regret the possibilities of the road not chosen, sometimes people feel proud about the road they have chosen.