THE FIGURE A POEM MAKES

THE FIGURE A POEM MAKES

Robert Frost 

ROBERT FROST (1874-1963) WAS BORN IN San Francisco, California, His father William old. HIs Scottish mother ,the  former Isabelle Moody , resumed her  career as a  schoolteacher to support her family .the family  lived in Lawrence , Massachusetts , with frost’s paternal grandfather .William Prescott frost ,who gave his grandson a good schooling .In 1892  frost graduated from a high school and  attended Dartmouth College for few months .Over  the next  years he held a number of jobs .Frost worked among others in a textile mill and  taught Latin at his mother’s  school in Methuen ,Massachusetts .In 1894 the New York  Independent published frost’s poem continued to write and publish his poem in magazines .In 1895 he married a former schoolmate , Elinor white ; they had six children .

From 1897  to 199 frost Studied at Harvard , but left without receiving  a degree .he moved to Derry , New Hampshire , working  there as a cobber , farmer ,and sent his poems to the Atlantic Monthly  they were  returned with this not ; “ we regret that The Atlantic has no  place for your vigorous  verse .”

In 1912 frost sold his farm and took his wife and four young children of England .there he published his first collection of poems, A BOYS WILL L, at the age of 39. It was followed by NORTH BOSTON (1914) , which gained  international reputation .the collection contains some of frost’s best -known poems  : mending  Wall , ‘ the death of the Hired man , ‘ Home Burial l,” ‘A servant s ,, ‘After apple - Picking ‘ and ‘the wood-Pile ,’ the poems ,written  with blank  verse or looser free verse of dialogue , were drawn from his own life , recurrent losses ,every tasks and his loneliness.

                                                                

While in England Frost was deeply influenced y such English poets as Rupert Brooke ,After  returning to the US  in 1915  with his family , frost bought a farm near Franconia , new Hampshire .when , when the editor of the Atlantic  Monthly asked for poems , he gave the very ones that had previously been rejected .Frost taught Later at Amherst college (1916-38) and Michigan universities .

In 1916 he was made a member of the National Institutes  of Arts and Letters .On the same year appeared his third collection  of verse ,MOUNTAIN INTERVAL , which contained such poems as the Road Not  taken ,’” The Oven bird , ‘ Birches , ‘and ‘ “ the Hill Wife  .’Frost’s poems show deep appreciation of natural world and sensibility about the human aspirations. His images - woods ,stars ,houses,  brooks,- are  unusually taken from everyday life .with his down -to - earth approach to his subjects , readers found it is easy to follow the poet into deeper truths , without being burdened with pedantry .Often Frost used the rhythms and vocabulary of ordinary speech or even the looser free verse of dialogue .

In 1920 Frost purchased a farm in south Shaftsbury, Vermont, near Middlebury college where he confounded the Bread Loaf School and conference of English. His wife died I 1938 and he lost four of his children. Two if his daughters suffered  mental breakdowns ,and his son carol , a frustrated poet and farmer ,led  him to cling to the desire to be awarded the Nobel  Prize for literature after the death of his wife , frost  became  strongly attracted to Kay Morrison, whom  he employed as his secretary and adviser .Frost also composed for her one  of his finest love poems ,’ a witness tree .’

Frost travelled in 1957 with his future biographer Lawrence ‘Thompson to England and to Israel and Greece in 1961. He participated in the inauguration of President John Kennedy in 1961 by reciting two of his poems .When the sun and the wind prevented him from reading his new poem. “The Preface ‘, frost recited his old poem , ‘The Gift Outright ,’ from memory , frost travelled in 1962  , in the soviet Union as a member of a goodwill group .he had a long talk with premier Nikita Khrushchev, whom he described  as “ no fathead “ , as smart , big and not a coward ,” Frost also reported that  Khrushchev  had said the United states was “ too  liberal to fight ,”It caused a considerable stir  in  Washington,. Among the honors and rewards frosts received were tributes from the U.S.  Senate (1950), the American academy of Poets (1953), new York University (1956), and Huntington Hartford foundation (1962). In 1958 the congressional gold Medal (1962, the Edward MacDowell medal 1962. In 1930 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Amherst College appointed him saimpson Lecturer for life 1949, and in 1958 he was made poetry consultant for the Library of congress.

                                                                            

At the time of his death on January 29, 1963, frost was considered a kind of unofficial poet laureate of the U.S.” I would have written of me on my stone:  I had a lover’s quarrel with the world,” Frost once said, .In his poems Frost depicted the field and farms of his surroundings, observing the details of rural life l, which hide universal meaning. His  independent , elusive  half  humorous  view of the  world produced such  remarks as “ I never take my side in a quarrel “ , or “ I’m never serious except when I’m fooling , “ Although frost’s works were generally  praised the lack of seriousness  concerning   social and political problems  of the 1930s  annoyed some more socially  oriented critics . Later biographers have created a complex and contradictory portrait of the poet. In  Lawrence  Thompson’s  humorless, three- volume official biography (1966-1976)  Frost was presented was a misanthrope, anti- intellectual, cruel land angry man , but in jay  Perini’s work  (1999) he was again viewed with sympathy ; “ he was  a loner who liked company ; a poet of isolation who south  a mass audience ; a rebel who sought to fit in . Although a family man to the core he frequently felt alienated from his wife and children and withdrew into reveries. While preferring to stay home, he traveled more than any poet of his generation to give lectures and reading even though he remained terrified of public speaking to the end …..”