ROBERT LEE FROST(1874-1963)

By: Carson Joyce

The Younger Days Robert Frost was born in San Francisco,

California. His father died when Frost was eleven years

old on May 5, 1885. Frost graduated from Lawrence High School in

1892. After high school he attended Dartmouth

College

In 1912 Frost sold his farm moved his family to England.

Frost befriended a number of well-known poets ( Ezra Pound) and published two collections- A Boy’s Will and North of Boston

He went on to publish several more volumes of poetry which won many awards.

Major Work

Dedication Fire and Ice Mending Wall Nothing Gold Can Stay Out, Out- The Road Not Taken Stopping by Woods on a Snowy

Evening

Influences

He uses New England’s landscape and social life style

To write his poems in the context of irony and ambiguity.

By the way modernism captures the readers attention by using universal themes.

Four out of six of his children died, his sister went insane and also the loss of his wife and dog.

Imagery and Symbolism

Writing that describes something in detail, words create sensory stimulation: visual and sound imagery. Specific or recurring images or sounds.

As a type and movement in poetry, emphasized non-structured "internalized" poetry that, for lack of better words, describe thoughts and feelings in disconnected ways and places logic, formal structure, and descriptive reality in the back seat.

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claimBecause it was grassy and wanted wear,Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I marked the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to wayI doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere 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.

He uses the two roads as roads in life to choose which 0ne to take

The one that’s is the easiest but might not be the best choice

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;

The author is wanting you to see a man at a fork in the road and deciding which road to choose.

Quotes

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.