Robert Frost

1874 - 1963 *

Controversial American poet famous for poems depicting nature and his use of colloquial American speech.

Robert Frost's poems use nature as a metaphorical foundation to pass his home-brewed advice and understanding of the world to the reader. Natural processes and features, such as snow in Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening are used to signify events in human lives and draw conclusions about human behaviour.

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American poet, one of the finest of rural New England's 20th century pastoral poets. Frost published his first books in Great Britain in the 1910s, but he soon became in his own country the most read and constantly anthologized poet, whose work was made familiar in classrooms and lecture platforms. Frost was awarded the Pulitzer Prize four times. Nature and rural surroundings became for Frost a source for insights into deeper design of life. He once said: "Literature begins with geography."

FIRE AND ICE
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've ... [read entire biography]

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Techniques of a Frost Poem -- - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
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Techniques and Ideas of Two Poems -- Mending Wall and The Tuft of Flowers
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Robert Frost and the Problems we have in Life -- an analytical essay written by a student
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A Layman's Understanding of Robert Frost's 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' -- Robert Frost achieves something rare in that his poetry is both literal and elusive, his language both plain and powerfully dramatic.
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Miscellaneous

		Robert Frost: America's Poet -- online texts of most of Frost's poems, along with some biographical and background information http://www.ketzle.com/frost/ Editorial Rating: Number of Visitors: 1919 1 users have rated it an average of 3 stars     [rate it] Frost Bouquet, A -- images from and information about some of the early editions of Frost's poetry http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/fro... Editorial Rating: Number of Visitors: 883 0 users have rated it an average of 0 stars     [rate it] Friends of Frost -- the website of an association dedicated to Frost, with some biographical information and discussions about his poems http://www.frostfriends.org/ Editorial Rating: Number of Visitors: 1007 1 users have rated it an average of 1 stars     [rate it] Discovering Frost -- a couple of online texts and a few discussion questions http://www.viterbo.edu/academic/ug/educa... Editorial Rating: Number of Visitors: 1085 1 users have rated it an average of 4 stars     [rate it]

     

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