Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, but his family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1884 following his father’s death. The move was actually a return, for Frost’s ancestors were originally New Englanders, and Frost became famous for his poetry’s engagement with New England locales, identities, and themes. Frost graduated from Lawrence High School, in 1892, as class poet (he also. Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, but his family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1884 following his father’s death. The move was actually a return, for Frost’s ancestors were originally New Englanders, and Frost became famous for his poetry’s engagement with New England locales. Robert Frost was a popular and amazing American poet whose poems are timeless. His works combine three main themes: Love, Nature and Society. The best love poems are: “Love and A question”, “Fire and Ice”, “Reluctance” and “Wind and Window flower”. His poems were short but very deep. 11 Most Popular Poems by Robert Frost The Road Not Taken. In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! I doubted if I should. Nothing Gold Can Stay. Her hardest hue to hold. But only so an hour. Her hardest hue to hold. But only so an hour.
Complete Poems of Robert Frost, Holt, 1968. The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Lathem, Holt, 1969. Robert Frost: Poetry and Prose, edited by Lawrence Thompson and Lathem, Holt, 1972. Selected Poems, edited by Ian Hamilton, Penguin, 1973. Collected Poems, Plays, and Prose, Library of America (New York, NY), 1995. Early Frost: The First Three Books, Ecco (Hopewell, NJ), 1996.
Robert Frost was a popular and amazing American poet whose poems are timeless. His works combine three main themes: Love, Nature and Society. The best love poems are: “Love and A question”, “Fire and Ice”, “Reluctance” and “Wind and Window flower”. His poems were short but very deep. An important feature of writing is that readers have to understand a hidden content though the artist vision. Frost was convinced that love can always find a meaning in the world around man:
“But whether or not a man was asked
To mar the love of two
by harboring woe in the bridal house,
The bridegroom wished he knew.”
Frost himself says: “All my poems are love poems”. The pain of love can help us to bear the struggle of life. A very sensitive soul is required to appreciate the love between the men and women in Frost’s poems. Human love has been examined in its different terms: love of wife (husband) mother, children, God, and other men (readers). In any case, a breathtaking feeling of dearness is always connected with struggle and difficulties. However, it makes us life for something.
Robert Frost fell in love with countryside in this regions and the nature around him also was some kind if inspiration. While in England, Frost also established a friendship with the poet Ezra Pound, who helped to promote and publish his work. This woman became a very close and important person in poet’s life.
No wonder, Robert Frost’s quotation is so romantic, tender and realistic nowadays: “Love is an irresistible desire to be an irresistibly desired!”
Here is a list of Robert Frost Love Poems
Robert Lee Frost [1874-1963] was born in San Francisco on 26 March 1874. His parents William Prescott Frost and Isabel Moodie met when they were both working as teachers. Robert was the eldest of their two children. Jeanie was his sister.
In 1885 following the death of his father, the family moved in with his grandfather in Lawrence Massachusetts. Eleven-year-old Robert, a California boy, grew to become New England's most famous poet..
Did you know . . .
In 1894, Frost sold his first poem “My Butterfly. An Elegy”, to the New York Independent, for $15 ($409 today).
Frost’s grandfather purchased a farm for Frost and his wife. Frost worked in it for nine years but failed, then worked as English teacher from 1906 to 1911.
He found it difficult to get his poems published. In 1912, Robert and Elinor moved to England, thinking that publishers there would be more willing to take a chance on a new poet. In 1913, Frost’s first book of poems, A Boy’s Will, was published by British publisher David Nutt. The following year Nutt also published another poetry collection by Frost titled, North of Boston.
The onset of World War I, brought the Frosts back to America. North of Boston had become a bestseller and Frost was acclaimed by critics the publishing world. Publishers like Atlantic Monthly who had previously rejected Frost’s work, now came calling. Frost famously sent Atlantic Monthly the same poems that they had turned down before he went to England
Frost won the first of four Pulitzer Prizes in 1924 for his fourth book, New Hampshire, and followed it with West-Running Brook (1928) and A Further Range (1936), which also won a Pulitzer. He remains the only poet and one of only four persons who have won four Pulitzer Prizes. In 1960, Frost was awarded with the highest civilian award, United States Congressional Gold Medal, “In recognition of his poetry which enabled the culture of the United States and the philosophy of the world”.
At the age of 86, Frost was asked to write and recite a poem for President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration. On January 20, 1961, at the inauguration, Frost could not read the words due to the blur of the sun and his failing eyesight. Undaunted, Frost put aside the new poem and instead recited his famous poem “The Gift Outright”, which he had committed to memory. This was the first time a poet had honored a presidential inauguration.