Robert Frost Research Paper

Robert Frost Robert Frost is considered one of the greatest American poets of all time. Frost’s poetry shows a unique perspective of life, and looks through with an eye for details and relatable connections, including the sufferings he endured in his life, four of his children, his father, and his wife, all in a short amount of time. His poetry uses realism by incorporating real-life situations, along with the language he uses to describe them. His poetry is influential during his time, as well as today, with his use of tone, style, and dialect. He compares to other poets with the use of his realistic approaches. What makes Robert Frost so unique; however, are some quotes he uses in his poetry, which are often used and quoted today in movies

According to Jay Parini, author of “Robert Frost: A Life”, he expresses his views as a “freethinker” at a young age in college, but his mother disapproves. She raised him as a Christian with high, moral beliefs, yet his viewpoints lean towards more of an atheist approach. In his most famous poem, A Road Not Taken, he ends it by going in a different direction than everyone else. Parini backs this statement up by

Frost writes about real-life situations, and like English poet Edward Thomas and American poet Ezra Pound, their poems either dealt with war or breaking tradition of modernism. With comparing Frost and Thomas, they both met in London in 1913. Living with each other in America, writing, teaching and farming, they become close, which is vital to each other’s success. While Frost is ready to have this dream as a reality, Thomas is not ready just yet. Here, Frost writes his most well-known, ‘A Road Not Taken,’ which sends Thomas off to war. The reasoning of this leads to Thomas wanting to take his own path and be in control of his life. He is not ready to settle down in one place just yet, he has his whole life ahead of him. Research from William Pritchard backs up this statement, reporting how Frost claims that “when they walked together [Thomas] always castigated himself for not having taken another path than the one they took” (Road Not Taken). Pritchard’s research proves that Frost’s poem “A Road Not Taken” was written about Edward Thomas, yet Thomas did not know that it was written about him. Pritchard goes on to state that while Frost’s poem is enjoyable and relatable, the “sincerity” in it is why the poem is depicted as