The Road Taken By Robert Frost 1864-1973 Robert Lee Frost, was one of America's leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. An essentially pastoral poet often associated with rural New England, Frost wrote poems whose philosophical dimensions transcend any region. Although his verse forms are traditional he often said, in a dig at archival Carl Sandburg, that he would as soon play tennis without a net as write free verse he was a pioneer in the
The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost
The Road Taken By Robert Frost 1864-1973 Robert Lee Frost, was one of America's leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. An essentially pastoral poet often ...
interplay of rhythm and meter and in the poetic se of the vocabulary and inflections of everyday speech. His poetry is thus both traditional and experimental, regional and universal ( Charles Alteri, 77). Robert s father, William Prescot Frost Jr., was something of a drifter. He worked usually as a newspaperman and sometimes squandered his wages in a saloon and casino. Frost s mother, a schoolteacher, her professional training served her well when in 18 she fled San
Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken
The Road Not Taken "Do not follow where the path may lead... Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Robert Frost Everyone is a traveler, ...
Francisco and her improvident husband for the first time. Packing two year old Robert with her, she crossed the Continent to William s parents house. There she gave birth to Robert s sister, Jeanie. Less than ten years later Frost s My tterfly, his first published poem appears in the Independent. In 1912, at the age of 38, he sold the farm his father had passed to him and used the proceeds to take his
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
"Do not follow where the path may lead... Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Robert Frost Everyone is a ...
family to England, where he could devote himself...