Robert Frost: the Great American Poet

Frost is one of the many poets that are worldwide famous. This is mostly because he went to England and became popular over there, and then he came back to the United States and became even more famous. One of his main goals in life was to write poetry and get discovered, which he did and even though many horrific thing came with his fame he still accomplished it. In conclusion, throughout this paper the reader will see that Robert Frost was an exceptional poet that went through hardship like any other human and made it; therefore, he will be remembered throughout history.

Frost’s father, who named the boy after his idle Robert E. Lee, met his wife in Pennsylvania while they were both teaching at Bucknell Academy. William Prescott Frost Jr. and his wife Isabelle Moodie married and moved to San Francisco where Robert was born. William Frost was a Harvard graduate and was the city editor for the San Francisco Daily Evening Post. Frost’s family moved a good amount and his father, who had serious drinking problems, died of tuberculosis in 1885 and left his mother and younger sister with very little money after burial expenses. The Frost’s returned east to live with the paternal grandparents, but soon moved to Amherst, New Hampshire to stay with his great-aunt.

He was first sneered at, jeering faces refusing to accept his twisted style as poetry, but quickly his work rose to such a revered status that it shone alongside the ubiquitous writings of the great Robert Frost. The entire collection of Cummings work includes a huge number of approximately 2900 poems, as well as several novels, and countless diary entries of eloquence and skill from even the earliest years of his childhood. E. E. Cummings was, in truth, a genius, for he spent his time inventing new ways of arranging poetry in certain line types, intercepting idea with parentheses and writing backwards and in spiraling loops to emphasize his intricately concealed main points. In his time, this was extremely uncouth and unheard of, and as he steadily grew to become a famous name worldwide, more wanted to read his works. The underlying meanings in his poems were so obscure, it was hard to see past them the very first time one laid eyes on them, as it was to see past the psychical barriers E. E. Cummings hid behind when in public, and sometimes even with those he truly cared about.

Robert Frost is a very well known poet from the 1920s and is one of the most famous in American history. Frost had a life full of adventure and love which is the root to some of his poems and what he believes in. Robert Frost is writer who’s modern like poems are inspirational and make you contemplate and wonder about life his home life, the world around him, and his own personal feelings that are bases for his amazing poetry. Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco California to Isabelle Moodie and William Prescott Frost Jr. When Robert was eleven years old his father died from tuberculosis and his mom including his mother and his sister Jeanie who nine moved to Lawrence Massachusetts where his father was originally from.

He faced many struggles including poverty, health issues, and a large amount of family deaths. Life was tough and things didn’t always go well, but he got through it. His works touched everybody and he is remembered for all of his contributions to the English language and literature. Although he may have started out being a bad student, living in an abusive household, and having strict parents. Robert Frost, a great American poet, lived a humble life and changed the world with his profound writing ability.

The creative genius’s own losses threatened to nearly drive out his passion for poetry. After a time, Longfellow learned to draw from these experiences to help him with his exalting works. The events of 19th century America, coupled with personal experience, serves to influence the captivating and gentle writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Born in Portland, Maine while it was still a part of Massachusetts in the early 19th century, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow grew up in a well-to-do, yet large, family. He had a romantic mindset as a child, reading many adventurous tales of foreign setting.

Although he never earned a formal college degree, he attended both Dartmouth College and Harvard University shortly before marrying his high sweetheart Elinor White. His wife’s pregnancy and an illness in the family caused Frost to drop out of college. Still living in New Hampshire, Frost tried being a teacher, a cobbler, an editor, and a farmer to support his children and wife. Frost had two children; Eliot (born in 1896), and Lesley (born in 1897 and who later suffered from mental illness). In 1900 Frost was diagnosed with tuberculosis and moved his poultry farm to Derry, New Hampshire.

His father, William Prescott was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard, heavy drinker and became a journalist and politician in California. After Frost’s father later died of tuberculosis in 1885, him and his mother moved to New Hampshire (Greiner 96). His mother was a school teacher, and she also taught Frost. She allowed him to skip classes and be lazy, which later affected his preparation for college. He had one sister, Jeanie, who was two years younger.

He has gained half a lifetime of considered experience and philosophical observations (Libraries). In the critical analysis that I read, the critics were hard on Frost’s work “Road not taken.” The first critic, William George, starts off by attacking other critics, saying they misin... ... middle of paper ... ... with right or wrong situations, and the speaker has to choose which road, or decision, to take. I like to think that I can somewhat relate to the speaker. I have had to make many choices throughout my life and I will never know whether my choices were right or wrong until I made them. The speaker kind of concludes the poem by saying that he is relieved that he chose the right road to take.

Fitzgerald being one of the most famous writers of all times captivated many with his continuing autobiographical work. This most likely why he was so popular because of his skill at interpreting his real life into extravagant stories. Making those who could relate or not relate want to read his books. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s troubling yet extravagant lifestyle influenced his writing and attributed to his fame. His books continue to captivate readers everywhere many years after his death.