Robert Frost

Four-time Pulitzer Prize winner and American Poet Robert Frost, is vastly admired for his realistic depictions of natural life and his use of American colloquial speech in his poetry. While most poets tend to disguise themselves in their stories, Frost uses literary elements such as structure, diction and most of all symbolism to portray themes strictly relating to his own personal life. Referred to by many as the greatest poet of the twentieth century, Frost was undoubtedly inspired by the…

Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken” shows his capability of writing his poems about life, as if he was familiar with the origins of the earth. In fact, Robert has lived in various farms throughout his life: Frost has experience in nature’s environment. While living on the Derry farm he was able to write great poems, but at the age of thirty-eight he sold his farm to move to England with his family, and there he arrived with three completed books: two were published in England (Voices and…

The poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost, relates the behavior of Nature to the real events that happen in life. The theme of the poem, acknowledges the fact that nothing very beautiful or wonderful can stay forever. This portrays in the whole poem, meaning that each and every sentence ties into the theme. In the very first sentence itself, Frost starts with the sentence, which is an alliteration and a metaphor, “green is gold”. This takes the idea to the stage where we are compelled to…

In “The Road Not Taken”, the author, Robert Frost, shows the idea that we are all defined by the choices we make in life, whether it’s good or bad. This poem demonstrates this idea well because the speaker was stuck between choosing two roads, and he did not know which one he should take. This relates to real life when making decisions, because you never know what is going to be at the other side when you get to the end. The concept of our decisions and how we choose to make them is illustrated…

Poetry Analysis of “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is made up of four stanzas of five lines each, and has iambic rhythm. By using symbolism, literary elements, and rhyme scheme, Frost is able to make readers think about choosing between diverging paths in a wood, and he sees that choice as a metaphor for choosing between different directions in life. “The Road Not Taken” has four stanzas of five lines. The rhyme scheme is ABAAB, which means it is an…

Frost began to develop an interest in writing and poetry and his first poem was published in student magazine of Lawrence High School. He received his high school diploma in 1892 and during that year he started falling in love with poetry. In the year of 1894, he sold his first professional poem, out of the five he had printed, to The Independent for less than twenty dollars. His poem’s publishing was very successful and that inspired him to re-ask Elinor White to be his lawful wedded wife.…

The poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" was first published in 1923 in America by the acclaimed author Robert Frost, whom at the time was thought to have a hostile view towards nature (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism). Imagery in literature refers to use of descriptive terms in the hopes of making the reader experience the scenery of the text in their mind. Symbols are utilized mainly works such as narratives to represent something greater than what is actually mentioned. Personification is the…

Taken” Robert Frost created a poem that takes the readers to a road that is split in two and decides which road to take. The author view the road as far as he could which resembled the same and wanted to choose the road that is least taken. Robert wanted his readers to view it as he took the road the is least taken, but what Robert really is trying to say have made his reader mislead the poem. “The Road Not Taken” is one of the classic with the trick in carries to hide it’s true meaning. Robert…

Introduction The Road Not Taken, one of the most iconic and globally recognized poems by the great Robert Frost. Written in the year 1915, Frost had just completed a multitude of adventures through the forest in England with his great friend, Edward Thomas, someone who too was caught in the middle between two choices: whether or not to enlist in the war or stay home; some say that Frost’s poem had a major influence on Thomas’s decision to actually enlist in the military, he sadly died two…

We have all felt alone and in the dark at some point in our life. Acquainted with the Night, By Robert Frost is a poem that deeply expresses emotions of isolation, detachment from self, disassociation and a depressive state of being. Robert Frost explores isolation through figurative words and poetic devices. From the beginning the word acquainted is a word that conveys meaning of distance and lack of close familiarity. The author states he was acquainted with night, meaning he stayed…