Robert Frost2
Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco, California, on March 26, 1874 and was the son of William Prescott Frost and Isabelle Moodie Frost. After his father died in 1885, the family returned to Lawrence, Massachusetts, which was the home of Frost's grandparents. There he grew up through his high school years. After less than a year at Dartmouth College, he left to work in textile mill and to marry Elinor White, a high school classmate. When his academic experience at Harvard disappointed him, Frost returned to Lawrence and had a variety of jobs. Finally, he became a chicken farmer in Derry, New Hampshire, on property that he bought from his grandfather. In 1912, Frost took his family to England, hoping that the residence there would help advance his poetic career. A British publisher accepted his first two volumes of verse, A Boy's Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914). Both were published in the United States in 1915, the year the Frost family returned him and settled on a farm in Franconia, New Hampshire. He then became a summer farmer and poet-teacher, just like he was in Derry. Except for brief periods at the University of Michigan and Har
This is the part where he comes back to his senses and realizes that he can't just sit there, Frost kept his religious faith mostly to himself or confided it only to close friends (Smith). When it entered his poetry at all, it was usually in a very guarded fashion. Earlier poems such as Sitting by a Bush in Broad Daylight and Not All There imply religious attitudes, and later ones - A Masque of Mercy, Accidentally on Purpose, and Kitty Hawk - are explicitly religious. The "dark" poems - Spring Pools, A Leaf Trader, Design and The Draft Horse - expressing tragic moods rather than hard-won convictions, and the poems of endurance, like Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, seem more deeply felt and more perfectly executed. And it seems Frost knew instinctively that they would have more appeal in a naturalistic age. "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, The poem, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, is about a man, or the author, that was going through his hectic life and than all the sudden, one evening, he actually stopped to look at his surroundings. He realized how beautiful his life and this world was and that sometimes there's too much going
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