Robert Frost

greatest poets of the nineteenth century was Robert Frost. His father was a Harvard graduate who began teaching after he moved to Pennsylvania. While there, he met and married Frost’s mother Isabelle Moodie, who was also a teacher. They later relocated to San Francisco. Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. His name was carefully chosen, and he was named after one the most famous generals from the South, Robert E. Lee. Frost had one sister name Jeannie. In 1884,…

Robert Frost was an amazingly influential poet. He left great poems we have left to decode, and each leaves a different message for everyone. I believe that Frost’s early childhood influenced his work greatly. Frost’s father’s career’s had the largest influence on him. In the last paragraph, I referenced Gale Cengage, who said that… “There is moreover a sexual dimension to his fantasy: the feminine woods ("lovely, dark and deep") are set against a world of men where promises must be kept—the…

“The Road Not Taken,” by Robert Frost is a poem that is a metaphor for life. A single choice can shift the course of a life. Regret is accompanied by undiscovered alternatives, forcing a pause in decision making. Within the poem there is a usage of figurative language, meaning the author chose to incorporate similes, metaphors, or personification in the chirography or writing. There was no similes in the poem, however there was one metaphor. The only metaphor was “two roads diverged,” which was…

Robert Frost Robert Frost, most famous for such works as “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” inspired the world with his poetry. Because most of the time he was coping with the death of a loved one, a large majority of his poems contemplate the purpose of life and what comes after death, simultaneously reflecting his constant feelings of isolation and grief. Born on March 26, 1874, to William Prescott Frost Jr. and Isabelle Modie Frost,…

techniques and styles. Although, there are many authors that have their own unique techniques to get to a deeper truth or message for the reader, Robert Frost, Tim O’brien and William Carlos Williams also have their own ways and techniques of making sense of the imperfections of human nature and life in order to get their message across. Robert Frost makes sense of the imperfections of human nature and life in to get to the deeper universal truth or message for the reader by using…

Road Not Taken” The Road Not Taken is a very metaphoric poem by Robert Frost in 1916. It has the rhyming scheme ABAAB. The poem was written for a friend of Roberts. In the beginning it explains the setting, a yellow wood, referring to a fall woods setting. The poem then explains that one path was destroyed with undergrowth and worn, and the other was grassy, yet appeared quite the same in terms of wear. In The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost suggests that acknowledging and making risky decisions…

Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) was born in San Francisco. He was a teacher, writer, and poet and was primarily influenced by daily events. He is a modernist. During World War I, he met Edward Thomas. This was when Frost came up with The Road Not Taken. Frost and Thomas developed a strong friendship. They planned to live side by side while teaching, writing and farming together. Thomas, then, had an important decision to make. He needed to decide between going with Frost or fighting in France. The…

Robert Frost wrote many poems throughout his 89 years of life. Most of the poems focused on nature, as did, “Stopped by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” The speaker of the poem is alone in the woods, clearly isolated. Isolation, even when self chosen, is difficult to contend with. “Stopped by Woods on a Snowy Evening” focuses on isolation. Literally, the speaker of this poem has stopped in the woods, on the darkest night of the year. He observes the depth and beauty of the woods and knows that he…

decide what direction to take. However, unlike roads, life does not provide a navigational system that directs someone to their desired destination. One must make decisions and rely upon those choices made to get them to their preferred destination. Robert Frost in his famous poem “The Road Not Taken” talks about a man who comes upon one of life’s stop signs and he must decide what road will lead him to his anticipated future. When analyzing Frost’s work, various interpreters deduce the theme of…

Robert Frost wrote “The Road Not Taken” as a joke for a friend, the poet Edward Thomas. When they went walking together, Thomas was chronically indecisive about which road they ought to take and—in retrospect—often lamented that they should, in fact, have taken the other one. Soon after writing the poem in 1915, Frost griped to Thomas that he had read the poem to an audience of college students and that it had been “taken pretty seriously … despite doing my best to make it obvious by my manner…