Robert Frost: A Poet To Remember

Robert Frost was one of America's leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He has been an inspiration to many young writers and aspiring poets. Although he lived through a troubled and tragic life, Frost was able to express his unique view of nature and the world around him in the delicate art of poetry. His direct and easy-to-read poems made him one of the most recognized poets in the country. Robert Frost had the ability to make his poems accessible to anyone reading them. His use of everyday vocabulary and traditional form of poetry made it easy for readers, although translating them is not as easy. Robert Frost's poems are very connotative in nature, making them very profound to read.

Frost started writing poetry at the end of the 19th century, in the late Victorian period; when he was about fifteen years of age. He wanted to reform poetic language away from the artificial, tremendously aged, diction used by his predecessors. Frost believed even ordinary conversation could be made poetic. However, when it came to form and structure, Frost relied on tradition. He wrote rhymed verse and blank verse, but never used free verse. He once said, "I would sooner write free verse as play tennis with the net down." It was quite obvious Frost disliked free verse poetry.

Frost used many metaphoric meanings in his poetry. To the literal mind, ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' might actually be about the character of the poem stopping near some woods while it was snowing. Almost expectedly, Frost's poem goes much deeper than that.

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. " This excerpt is from the la...

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...ird grade after much testing. His younger sister enters fourth in this year as well. In late 1886, Frost's family moves to Salem Depot, New Hampshire. Frost and his younger sister enter the fifth grade together here. He passes the entrance exam for Lawrence High in June of 1888 and enrolls in the classical program. He graduates in 1889 at the head of his class.

Although many say Frost's schooling was part of his writing, his schooling was not exactly perfect. Robert Frost was a creative and imaginative poet who made the simplest of things, such as a snowy evening (‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'), or a door without a lock (‘A Lockless Door'), a metaphoric puzzle with twists and turns of the brain that only the sickest and most beautiful minds can create. Frost had created a legacy of poetry than none can compare to.