Robert Frost
Are you a poetry reader or do you find it hard to understand? Unlike short stories or novels poems are short and to the point, just enough to capture your attention. All poems are different with different meanings and different images. One famous poet is Robert Frost who seems to enjoy capturing more natural settings. He was born in 1874, in San Francisco, but later moved to Massachusetts, where after high school he married Elinor White. His first book A Boys Will, was published in 1913 and his second; North of Boston, was published in 1914. Frost received many awards including 4 Pulitzer Prizes, honorary degrees, and the Bollingen Poetry Prize. Even though he was a very successful poet things seemed to go downhill fast after the death of his wife, three of his children, and his sister. It is said that after this “he later struggled with the decline of his poetic powers,” (DiYanni, 668). Readers can see the depression, bitterness, and loneliness of Frost’s......
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