Robert Frost is a well-known highly acclaimed poet world-wide. During his lifetime, he obtained more than seventeen honorary degrees from prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and England, and receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for his works. When Frost passed he was the most popular and famous American poet of the century, a cultural icon, and an esteemed literary figure of great influence (Bloom, Bloom 's Major Poets: Robert Frost 14). Frost’s life illustrates the reasoning and logic behind his literary masterpieces, also creating a second meaning when comparing nature with life.
Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874 and lived there until the age of eleven. After the death of his father in 1885, Frost, …show more content…
To man, Frost believed, the universe seemed almost chaotic, a confusion in which he could find meaningful patterns of objects and ideas only with difficulty (Potter 156). What he “did” to American poetry was insist that a poem must have a definite form, be dramatic, and use the voice tones to vary the “te tum” effect of traditional iambic meter (Harris 5). The poetic impulse itself is a majority of the confusion before it is shaped into a poem. Although the confusion had a more so negative effect, Frost intelligently took in the pessimistic views and used them as raw materials for his works. When Frost applies his ideas about form to the art of poetry, he shifts his concern with universal chaos to the “wildness” of the creative impulse (Harris 5). A poet should not attempt to place content in a chosen form, rather allow the ideas and thoughts come naturally, a technique Frost exercised …show more content…
and Who will I become? What any poet has to say about man’s status in nature, for example, depends in part upon the landscape and climate he happens to live in and in part upon the reactions to it of his personal temperament (Bloom, Bloom 's Major Poets: Robert Frost 67). Throughout his life, Frost always managed to find his way back to living on a farm in some shape, form, or fashion. A majority of Frost’s works reflect on the scene of nature relating to a personal experience he has one point in life faced. Alike every other human being, Frost confronted himself of his validation to society, but he decided to excel and create his own fate. Early critics may not have agreed with Frost’s form and newly developed techniques, but that did not stop him from accomplishing his
Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874 and lived there until the age of eleven. After the death of his father in 1885, Frost, …show more content…
To man, Frost believed, the universe seemed almost chaotic, a confusion in which he could find meaningful patterns of objects and ideas only with difficulty (Potter 156). What he “did” to American poetry was insist that a poem must have a definite form, be dramatic, and use the voice tones to vary the “te tum” effect of traditional iambic meter (Harris 5). The poetic impulse itself is a majority of the confusion before it is shaped into a poem. Although the confusion had a more so negative effect, Frost intelligently took in the pessimistic views and used them as raw materials for his works. When Frost applies his ideas about form to the art of poetry, he shifts his concern with universal chaos to the “wildness” of the creative impulse (Harris 5). A poet should not attempt to place content in a chosen form, rather allow the ideas and thoughts come naturally, a technique Frost exercised …show more content…
and Who will I become? What any poet has to say about man’s status in nature, for example, depends in part upon the landscape and climate he happens to live in and in part upon the reactions to it of his personal temperament (Bloom, Bloom 's Major Poets: Robert Frost 67). Throughout his life, Frost always managed to find his way back to living on a farm in some shape, form, or fashion. A majority of Frost’s works reflect on the scene of nature relating to a personal experience he has one point in life faced. Alike every other human being, Frost confronted himself of his validation to society, but he decided to excel and create his own fate. Early critics may not have agreed with Frost’s form and newly developed techniques, but that did not stop him from accomplishing his