Robert Frost: Creating Morality

Everyone needs a sense of morals in life. These morals can be learned from family members, past experiences or even nature. Robert Frost takes imagery, emotion, symbolism, and he often uses nature in his poetry to not only paint a picture in the reader’s mind, but also to create a moral of each work.

Biography of Robert Frost

Robert Frost was born to an editor for a father, and a member of the Swedenborgian church. His father, William Frost, started as a teacher, and then became the editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin. Isabelle Moodie, his mother, baptized him with the Swedenborgian church. Later on in Frost’s life, he left this church. Frost was born in San Francisco (“Biography of Robert Frost”, poemhunter.com). In 1994, be published his first poem, “The Butterfly: An Elegy,” on November 8, 1894 at age 20. He published this work in the New York newspaper The Independent. Frost was a unique poet in the way that he stood in between the nineteenth-century poetry, and modern poetry. James M. Cox said that, “Though his career fully spans the modern period and though it is impossible to speak of him as anything other than a modern poet, it is difficult to place him in the main tradition of modern poetry,” (“Robert Frost”, poetryfoundation.org).

Bibliography of Robert Frost

Robert Frost’s works have been included in 36 books, plays, and other various works. Some of these works include A Boy’s Will (David Nutt, 1913), From Snow to Snow (Holt, 1936), “Hard not to be a King (House of Books, 1951), In the Clearing (Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1962), The Cow’s in The Corn: A One Act Irish Play in Rhyme (Slide Mountain Press, 1929), and Family Letters of Robert and Elinor Frost (State University of New York Press, 1972).

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...d area to create a moral of independence. Another example is “Acquainted with the Night.” In this work he takes a cultured urban narrator to reveal life of the city at night, but also of the darkness of one’s soul.

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Roberts, Edgar V., and Henry E. Jacobs. Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing. 8th ed,. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall , 2007. Print.