Poems of Robert Frost

Robert Frost was an American poet, and playwright who became one of the leading pioneers in poetry in the late 1800’s into the 1900’s. Frost grew up in rural New England in the early twentieth century and experienced many hardships in his life including losing his father at the young age of eleven and losing two children at very young ages. He used his experiences of growing up in a rural area in most of his poems. Another major them in his poems are decision-making poems usually based off of his own life. This is a huge them in his poems because Frost always wondered what would have happened if he decided doing something other than writing poetry in his life. He always wondered how his life would be different and it shows in his poems such as “The Road Not Taken.”

A theme that is used in Frost’s poems often is decision-making. Frost had a lot of life changing decisions in his life such as dropping out of college after two months. All of these decisions affected his life a great deal and it is shown in many of his poems;

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

This is an excerpt from Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken”. The poem is about two paths that Frost comes upon while traveling that bifurcated in the road. He states that both roads seemed pretty equal but that one road was taken a lot more than the other because of the grass surrounding it unlike the other road where it was all snowy and not many people dared to enter. Frost states that he had decided to take the road that had been less traveled and because of that his life was different. The meaning of a poem such like this one is tha...

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...ody can write a poem so unique that it makes the reader think into what the poet means. This journal showed me that every author has different qualities and that no one writes the same way and that Robert Frosts has a lot of power in some areas and lacks power in others.

Frost’s poems will be read for many years to come and will always make the reader think before going onto another poem because that’s how different Frost’s poems are compared to other poet’s. Frost makes readers think outside the box and uses his personal life in most of his poems so the reader can understand where he is coming from. Without poems like “The Mending Wall” or “The Road Not Taken” we wouldn’t think of looking into a situation more closely. Frost had changed the literary world and we will still be learning and trying to understand all of his astonishing poems for years to come.