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Robert Frost

Robert Frost. Amanda Keogh and Sarah Phillips. Biography. Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874. He moved to New England at the age of eleven and became interested in reading and writing poetry during his high school years in Lawrence, Massachusetts .

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Robert Frost

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  1. Robert Frost Amanda Keogh and Sarah Phillips

  2. Biography • Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874. • He moved to New England at the age of eleven and became interested in reading and writing poetry during his high school years in Lawrence, Massachusetts. • He was enrolled at Dartmouth College in 1892, and later at Harvard, though he never earned a formal degree. • In 1895, Frost married Elinor Miriam White, who became a major inspiration in his poetry. • The couple moved to England in 1912, after their New Hampshire farm failed. • Frost was influenced by such contemporary British poets as Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, and Robert Graves. • Frost died January 29, 1963(1963-01-29) at the age of 88 in Boston, Massachusetts,

  3. The Road Not Taken • Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, • And sorry I could not travel both • And be one traveler, long I stood • And looked down one as far as I could • To where it bent in the undergrowth. • Then took the other, as just as fair, • And having perhaps the better claim, • Because it was grassy and wanted wear; • Though as for that the passing there • Had worn them really about the same. • And both that morning equally lay • In leaves no step had trodden black. • Oh, I kept the first for another day! • Yet knowing how way leads on to way, • I doubted if I should ever come back. • I shall be telling this with a sigh • Somewhere ages and ages hence: • Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- • I took the one less traveled by, • And that has made all the difference.

  4. Style • Though his work is primarily associated with the life and landscape of New England, and though he was a poet of traditional verse forms and metrics who remained consistently distant from the poetic movements and fashions of his time, Robert Frost is anything but a simply regional or minor poet. The author of searching and often dark thoughts on common themes, he is in essence a modern poet in his devotion to language as it is actually spoken, in the psychological complexity of his portraits, and in the point to which his work is infused with layers of doubt and irony.

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