Robert Frost

Robert Frost Pulitzer Prize winning poet and playwright, Robert Frost was a twentieth century poet who was most famous for his depiction of the rural New England life in his work. This fame would bring Frost to be both critically acclaimed as well as an enormously popular writer. Frost would be seen as one of our most renowned poets and playwrights. This popularity would bring Frost to win his first Pulitzer prize for his book “New Hampshire: A poem with Notes and Grace Notes,” in 1924. In 1931…

Hampshire newspaper, on March 31, 1901, in which a boy suffers a serious accident to his hand.” Robert Frost was a successful poet who used many elements of his personal life in his writing. He took inspiration from his hometown, local news-stories, and local farmers. Robert’s past experiences impacted and influenced his writing. Robert Frost took inspiration from his surroundings in his work. Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, but was raised in New England. New England would become the…

The Life of Robert Frost Reflected in His Poetry Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco, California on March 26, 1874 to Isabelle Moodie and William Prescott Frost Jr. (Burnshaw). He spent eleven years of his life in San Francisco, but moved with his mother and sister to Massachusetts after his father died (Pritchard). Frost died on January 29, 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts (Burnshaw). Frost’s career spanned fully through the literary era of Modernism, but his works are difficult to place…

Robert Langill 2/1/17 Frost Paper Rough draft Period 1 Robert Frost's upbringing and life has a lot to do with his dark and witty writing. Throughout Frost's entire life, he was hurt by the loss of someone close to him, which contributed to his dark writing style. These sad and mortifying events started at a young age and continued to get worse. He was born on March 26 in 1874 in San Francisco California. When he was 11 he experienced his first loss when his dad died of tuberculosis, and his…

of Robert Frost’s poems. The poems of Robert Frost are not as pessimistic as some believe. The poems are actually bright and show the good parts of life. Robert Frost’s poems show optimism through poems of love, nature, and a motive to keep moving forward. Love is the first point of optimism in the poems. Robert Frost has many poems showing this emotion. A couple of poems that show love is “Hyla Brook” and “A Line-Storm Song”. The tones are very pulled towards the thought of love. As Robert…

Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, California. He stayed in California for the first twelve years of his life until his father, William Frost Jr., died of tuberculosis. After his father had died, his mother moved their family to Lawrence, Massachusetts to live with his grandparents. Frost attended Lawrence High School where he met his future wife, Elinor. Frost attended Dartmouth for a few months after high school before returning home to help support his family. He…

throughout history but Robert Frost and his poems take the cake because they are well thought out and have many different meanings and figurative language. On poemhunter.com he is considered the second-best poet of all time beating people like Walt Whitman and William Shakespeare. On poets.org, it said that Frost began his interest in writing and poetry when he was in high school. He then went to Dartmouth College and later transferred to Harvard. He never earned a formal degree. Frost was…

Robert Frost, the author of “Fire and Ice”, writes about the ancient question of the destiny of the world. He is able to capture the reader using few words while pondering whether the world is going to be destroyed by fire or ice. Using short, to the point, and grouped lines, Frost makes dramatic and important shifts through the poem while exploring two forces that have potential to end the world. Frost emphasizes the division of opinions from the believers of freezing to death and those…

Choosing Normal Robert Frost was not a die-hard socialist or a flaming romanticist. He wrote poetry for most of his life. He was, at the end of his long life, one of the most honored poets of his time. He is the most widely read of the American poets. Frost’s poetry is masterfully crafted and well loved through out the world. His poetry was written to enjoy, not to protest or make a point. Robert Frost was not a tortured, soulful poet, living in a dark attic, writing his verse on scraps of…

Robert Frost’s “Design” Robert Frost has always been one of my favorite poets. The excellent poem “Design” written by this great scientist poet has many examples of figurative language, like similes and imagery. Also, the theme of this poem is very inspiring and meaningful. First, Robert Frost uses numerous similes in his sonnet “Design”. For example, in the third line of the first stanza it says, “like a white piece of rigid satin cloth” describing the moth as white is telling that its pure.…