Robert Frost
Among the many poets that have contributed to the shaping of American literature, Robert Frost stands as one of the most prevalent. With his descriptive lines about nature, in all its beauty and splendor, he creates scenes within a reader's mind that are hard to forget. His thriving life, and all that was a part of it, is the main "genetic make-up" that he used in his writings. Frost's love of nature seems to dominate all other themes found in his poetry, whether discussing its beauty or destructiveness. Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874. After his father's death in 1885, 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 became enrolled at Dartmouth College in 1892, and later at Harvard, but never earned a formal degree. Frost drifted through a string of occupations after leaving school, working as a teacher, cobbler, and editor of the Lawrence Sentinel. His first professional poem, "The Butterfly," was published on November 8, 1984 in the New York literary journal, The Independent. A year later, in 1895, Frost married Elinor Miriam White, who became a major inspiration in his poetry until he
Already, Frost knows he must pick a road to travel, one direction to take in his own life. While he tries to anticipate what will happen if taking one road, he wishes he could travel both. But, as we all know, he cannot travel both because the road in this poem is the journey of life, and in life you cannot turn back or change the decisions you've made. Readers can just picture themselves coming upon two paths to choose from in the woods. "The Road Not Taken" is commonly read at high school graduations because it reflects the decisions people need to make in life. To see if there is some mistake (Lines 9-10)
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Approximate Word count = 1271
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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