Pound reviewed his books A Boy’s Will and North of Boston in a “favorable light” and Edward Thomas became an important colleague, as he was the inspiration for Frost’s most well-known poem, “The Road Not Taken” (“Robert Frost”). From this moment on, Robert Frost’s career as a poet was launched and he was widely accepted by the literary world (“Robert Frost”). He then was able to hold positions as a teacher or lecturer at more than 8 universities across the board. Amidst the successes in his life, some of Frost’s poetry has a darker side that is likely the result of the tragedy that he went through in his life. Frost suffered from a series of family disasters around the 1930s. Specifically, his youngest child, Marjorie, died a slow death from the puerperal fever, his wife, Elinor, died of surgery complications, and his son, Carol, committed suicide in 1940 (“Robert Frost”). Poems such as “Desert Places”, which has a lonely and depressed tone, reflect some of the emotions that Frost had to endure during his
Pound reviewed his books A Boy’s Will and North of Boston in a “favorable light” and Edward Thomas became an important colleague, as he was the inspiration for Frost’s most well-known poem, “The Road Not Taken” (“Robert Frost”). From this moment on, Robert Frost’s career as a poet was launched and he was widely accepted by the literary world (“Robert Frost”). He then was able to hold positions as a teacher or lecturer at more than 8 universities across the board. Amidst the successes in his life, some of Frost’s poetry has a darker side that is likely the result of the tragedy that he went through in his life. Frost suffered from a series of family disasters around the 1930s. Specifically, his youngest child, Marjorie, died a slow death from the puerperal fever, his wife, Elinor, died of surgery complications, and his son, Carol, committed suicide in 1940 (“Robert Frost”). Poems such as “Desert Places”, which has a lonely and depressed tone, reflect some of the emotions that Frost had to endure during his