Robert Lee Frost holds a unique and almost isolated position in American poetry. Though his career spans throughout the modern period it is difficult to place him in the main tradition of modern poetry. In a way Frost stands in the middle of nineteenth century American poetry and modernism. He uses many different themes, tendencies, and traditions from the nineteenth century as well as the twentieth century. Although he avoids traditional verse, and barely ever uses rhyme, Frost is not an innovator and his technique is never experimental.
Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, where his father, William Prescott Frost Jr., and his mother, Isabelle Moodie, had moved shortly after their marriage. After his father passed due to tuberculosis when Frost was eleven, he moved with his mother and sister, Jeanie, to Lawrence, Massachusetts. When he was there that was when he became interested in reading and writing poetry during his high school years. After high school he enrolled at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1892, and then later went to Harvard University in Boston, though he never earned a college degree. After leaving school Frost went through a lot of different jobs like, working as a teacher, a cobbler, and an editor for the Lawrence Sentinel. In 1895, Frost married Elinor Miriam White, which he shared valedictorian honors with in high school. She was also a major inspiration for his poetry until her death in 1983. The couple moved to England in 1912, after they tried and failed at farming in New Hampshire. Frost met and was influenced by British poets such as Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, and Robert Graves. While in England, Frost established a friendship with the poet Ezra Pound, who helped to pr...
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...narrates Frost's ambivalence about the war that claimed Thomas's life. The story of the other friend picks up where the first leaves off. It is the story of a new beginning for Frost in his friendship with Frederic C. Meicher, a rising star in the book trade, and it was Meicher who preserved this lost passage of Frost's poetic thoughts about the war.
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Robert Frost's poems are full of psychological ideas, which serve as a kind of perfection against losing oneself for the chaotic modern man. Freudian theory of the id, the ego and the superego is employed to analyze the psychological journey of "I" in his "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", which helps to understand its themes and Frost's composing purposes.
Robert Frost is very successful poet from the 20th century, as well as a four time Pulitzer Prize winner. Robert Frost work was originally published in England and later would be published in the US. He was also considered one of the most popular and respected poets of his century. Robert Frost created countless of poems and plays, many of them containing similar themes. Some of the most popular themes found in his poems encompass isolation, death and everyday life.
Robert Frost is often known as one of the greatest American poets of all time. Although he is sometimes remembered as hateful and mean spirited, his life was filled with highs and lows. These differentiating periods are represented throughout his poetry. Frost once said that “A poem begins in delight, and ends in wisdom.” As can be seen, this quote not only reflected his poetry, but his life. Though many years of his life were troubled by misfortune, Frost always seemed to persevere. Robert Frost was a talented, thoughtful poet whose life was filled with complexity and tragedy (brainyquote.com).
Print. Frost, Robert. “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening”, Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry and Drama, Robert DiYanni, Sixth ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2007. 767.
Robert Frost was an American poet who was known for his vivid images of nature and farm life in his work. He was highly regarded as one of the most influential and popular American poets of the twentieth century. He has received various awards such as the Congressional Gold Medal and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, which he won four times. Many critics over the years have analyzed Frost’s poetry, all of them eager to jump into the woods of complexity that is Robert Frost.
Frost’s application of diction in “Acquainted With the Night” expresses the meaning that hard times provides isolation through key words that provide the audience with proof that the speaker is communicating a detached mood. In line 1, “acquainted,” is a vital use of diction to show the meaning. The word acquainted means to know very well. When the speaker is saying he is “acquainted with the night” in line 1, he is indicating that he is familiar with the lonely night. By being “acquainted” with darkness, or the night, in his life, the speaker is illustrating how being in an isolated state of life is not new to him. The meaning of detached feelings because of hardships is revealed
Examine the ways in which Frost explores ideas about loneliness and isolation in three poems you have studied.
...fall of snow and the unremitting “sweep” of “easy wind” appear tragically indifferent to life, in turn stressing the value of Poirier’s assessment of the poem. Frost uses metaphor in a way that gives meaning to simple actions, perhaps exploring his own insecurities before nature by setting the poem amongst a tempest of “dark” sentiments. Like a metaphor for the workings of the human mind, the pull between the “promises” the traveller should keep and the lure of death remains palpably relevant to modern life. The multitudes of readings opened up through the ambiguity of metaphor allows for a setting of pronounced liminality; between life and death, “night and day, storm and heath, nature and culture, individual and group, freedom and responsibility,” Frost challenges his readers to delve deep into the subtlety of tone and come to a very personal conclusion.
Robert Frost is regarded as one of the most distinguished American poets in the twentieth century. His work usually realistically describes the rural life in New England in the early twentieth century and conveys complex social and philosophical themes. But his personal life was plagued with grief and loss, which is also reflected in his poems and the dark energy distinguishes Robert Frost’s poems, frequently conveyed in the use of lexical words like dark and its derivatives or synonyms, woods, snow, night, and so on. (Su, Y)
Robert Frost was born in San Franciso on March 26, 1874, but later moved to Lawrence, Massachuschusetts (after his father died) where he did most of his writing. He was a simple man who taught, worked in a mill, was a reporter, was a New England farmer, and wrote. Throughout his life he had always been interested in literature. He attended Dartmouth College, but remained less than one semester. In 1894 he sold his first work “My Butterfly: An Elegy” to a New York journal. A year later he married Elinor White. From 1897 to 1899 he attended Harvard College as a special student but left before he acquired his degree. For the next ten years he wrote poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire, and taught at Derry’s Pinkerton Academy.
Hotchman, Jhan. "An overview of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." Literature Resource Center. 3 August 2010 .
American author Robert Lee Frost was a talented writer whose “work was published in England then transferred to America” (imdb.com). Born on March 26,1874 in San Francisco, California, Frost attended Lawrence High School. “He had many jobs but they were not satisfying to him so he started writing poetry which became a big success in h...
New York: Henry Holt, 1999. Print. Richardson, Mark. The Ordeal of Robert Frost: The Poet and His Poetics.
By both elaborating on the ideas of earlier writers and adding ideas of his own, Robert Frost creates a place for himself in history. The themes of his poems remain true regardless of the time period. Modern readers understand the importance of love and imagination that Frost describes. His messages about death and relationships have guided readers for decades. While technology becomes an ever more important part of the modern world, the continued love of Frost’s poetry shows that people still feel a connection to nature.
Robert Frost, a poet that mastered the imagery of nature through his words. Such vivid details compressed in a few stanzas explains the brilliancy of his writing. He was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco. By the 1920s, he was the most celebrated poet in America; with his fame and honor increasing as well. His poems created themes like nature, communication, everyday life, isolation of the individual, duty, rationality versus imagination, and rural life versus urban life. The most controversial theme of this poems is nature and if his poems have a dark side in them. Readers can easily be guided to the fact that his poems are centered on nature; however, it is not. Frost himself says, "I am not a nature poet. There is almost a person in
Frost was a rural Yankee whose writings reflect everyday experiences-his own experiences, but was one who saw metaphorical dimensions in the everyday things he encountered. These everyday encounters held ground as his subject manner, combined with the rural setting of New England nature, seasons, weather and times of day. Frost’s goal was to write his poetry in such a way that it would cover familiar ground, but in an unfamiliar way or uncommon in expression.