Although Robert Frost was born in San Fransisco, he called the North Eastern United States his childhood home because he moved to Massachusetts with his mother, after his father’s death. Robert Frost had superior schooling growing up, and even went on to study at Harvard University, though he left Harvard before attaining his degree. Frost ...
April is National Poetry Month. In honor of National Poetry Month, I’d like to present a critical analysis of Robert Frost’s Mending Wall. I know that many people say that Frost’s poems are either trite or too over analyzed, but I personally love many of Frost’s poems. The first Robert Frost poem I ever read ...
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To know that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. By Robert Frost (1874-1963) ...
When my youngest daughter was just a baby, I picked up a book at a garage sale. The book was entitled, “In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories,” and was a compilation of short and spooky folk tales and poems for kids. My older kids read it to her, and when she was ...
“Mending Wall” is written in blank verse, published in 1914, by Robert Frost. The poem appeared as the first selection in Frost’s second collection of poetry, North of Boston. The poem that begins on a conversational mode proceeds to have deeper implications. At the superficial level, it appears to be a war of words between ...
Robert Frost is without question one of the best loved of all Twentieth Century American poets. A New Englander who loved every inch of his northeastern landscape, Frost wrote about its many moods, faces and seasons . Robert Frost captured quiet scenes, slices of life and bits of wisdom in his poetry and left them ...
Robert Lee Frost was a man of many words. Unlike most of mankind, however, Frost put his words to use in the form of America’s most popular poetry. Poems such as “The Road Not Taken” and “Home Burial” are among Frost’s most famous. Multiple volumes and collections of his poetry have been published both during ...