From that point on, Robert Frost never stopped .

             blaming himself for Elanor"s death. He thought that God was punishing him; and putting him on trial like Jobe, to show the devil that through all of this treatment, humans could still be thankful. This view was reflected in his poem [Forgive, O Lord .] "Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on thee and I"ll forgive thy great big one on me." The "great big one (joke) on me" is a illusion to the treatment that Robert Frost believes he is receiving from God. 1940, just two years after his wife"s death, Robert"s son, Carol, committed suicide. After the death of Carol, Robert moved to his final home in Cambridge, MA. January 29, 1963 Robert Frost died at the venerable age of 88. He saw all of his children either die or suffer from mental instability.

             Robert Pack, a University of Massachusetts professor, compares Robert Frost"s work to life, ".simple immediate surface, but when you look deeper the poem reveals itself to you." Pack continues to elaborate on Frost"s poetic mysteries; he speaks of humor and trickery that Robert Frost includes in his poems that only a seasoned reader can pick up on. It is these "dark sayings" and mysteries that maintain Frost"s distinctive "enigmatical reserve." Robert Frost is considered by Pack as one of the greatest American poets to ever live. Compared to the revered Walt Whitman, or Longfellow. Frost wanted to be considered a "poet-teacher", to make nature speak with a human voice to readers, and a "poet-preacher" to dramatize for the reader the divinity in the face of which belief must be given shape.

             Frost said that his main objective in poetry was to say one thing and to mean another, the definition of a metaphor. Robert Frost"s poems are predominantly written in blank verse, poems without a rhyme scheme typically written in iambic pentameter. Literary Critic Amy Lowell .