Robert Frost's well-known poem, "Stopping by The Wood on the Snowy Evening". Frost was born in San Francisco, where he spent his first eleven years. After the death of his father, a journalist, he moved with his mother and sister to Western Massachusetts near to his paternal grandparents. He wrote his first poem while a student at Lawrence High School, from which he graduated as co-valedictorian with the woman he was to marry, Elinor Miriam White. In 1894, he sold his first poem " The Butterfly, An Elesy", to a New York magazine, The Independent. He married in December 1895.

1906, two of his most accomplished early poems, " The Tuft at Flowers" and "The Trial by Gustence" were published. 1912, he sailed with his family from Boston to Glasgow, then settled outside London in Beaconsfield. Frost placed his first book of poems, A Boy's Will (1913) with a small London publisher, David Nutt. He also made acquaintances in the literary world, such as the poet F.S. Funt, who introduced him to Ezra Pound, who in turn reviewed both A Boy's Will and North at Boston. His best early poems such as "Mowin", "Mending Wall" and "Home Burial".

Frost won the first of four pulitzer prizes in 1924 fo

Discussion of this poem has usually concerned itself with matters of "content" or meaning of what do the woods represent. Is this a poem in which suicide is contemplated? Frost accordingly, as he continued to read it in public made fun of efforts to draw out or fix its meaning as something large and impressive, something to do with man's existential loneliness or other ultimate matters. Woods, especially when as here they are lovely, dark and deep are much more seductive to Frost than as a field, the "blank whiteness of berrighted snow , the recognition of the power of nature, especially of snow, to obliterate the limits and boundaries of things and as his own being is, in large past.

The objective approach to a poem begins with personal interest in the poem. That is, when one has read a poem one has encountered the statement of a certain experience. Then one wants to response to that experience through a consideration of one's own experience. In the Frost poem, for example, one might for subjective reasons, conclude that the speaker is an old man who is tired or a young man who feels tired when he considers how many years there are remaining for him. A girl might, for subjective reason, feel enough kind ship to the speaker to decide it is a woman rather than a man. Each of us would think of some of the possible promises the speaker has to "keep according" to what the obligations in life, each of us might presently have. Each of us would make decisions as to the precise meaning of "miles" for some readers they would stand only for seconds, as they might suspect that the poet was very aged and about to die any minutes. For other readers, "miles" might be taken literally, Each of us would measure the narrator's intended journey according to different yard sticks.

r his fourth book, New Hampshire, and followed it with West-Running Book (1928) and A Further Range (1936) which also won a Pulitzer.

"The Phantom Weaver" "Our bed is lovely, dark and sweet. The concluding "And miles to go before I sleep" comes from Keats. "Keen fist

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