Robert Frost, is a poet known for his work because his poems relate to the common person. He began his work in 1894 with his first poem being “My Butterfly: an Elegy”, the following poem was published in The Independent, which was once a weekly literary journal that was based in New York City (Robert Frost Biography). Robert Frost’s poems help to display his life and the life of the common man.
Many of Robert Frost’s poems reflects his marriage to his wife Elinor and there five children, sadly many of them will die. His poems also reflect his encounters with fellow poets Ezra Pound and Edward Thomas (Robert Frost Biography). Robert Frost’s childhood marriage, children, and the men he encountered impacted his life greatly. Robert Frost took these impactful things and created poetry based on them, thus his poems have a reality to imaginary like theme, the theme of some of his other poems reflects the daily struggles a person faces. His poems also have a dreamy like tone to them because of the choice full words that he uses to describe an event.
Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, California (Robert Frost). He lived there for ten years of his life but when his father passed away his mother moved him and his sister to Lawrence, Massachusetts (Robert Frost). He attended Lawrence High School and there he would go on to meet his future wife Elinor (Robert Frost). After they were married in 1895, they would start a family expecting their first child. Frost at one point was attending Harvard University but dropped out because of health reasons (Robert Frost Biography). He went back to be with his wife and child, (another was on the way) Robert Frost and Elinor moved to a farm in New Hampshire.
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They would go on to have four more children however sadly three of them will die because of disease or complications. The family eventually decided to move to England to try to help launch Frost’s poetry career (Robert Frost). In England Frost would Meet Ezra Pound and Edward Thomas (Robert Frost Biography). Thomas is a key figure in the poem “The Road Not Taken”, Thomas and Frost’s long walks over Europe’s landscape influenced this poem. Thomas’s indecision and regret regarding what path to take helped to inspire Frost to write this poem (Robert Frost Biography).
In the poem “The Road Not Taken” Robert Frost uses uncertainty to convey to the reader that there are many different choices that you will have to make in life. This entire poem is a metaphor because the road is compared to the journey of life, decisions have to be made at any point in time “And both that morning equally lay” ( “The Road Not Taken”, Line 11). The morning is being compared to the choice that has already been made. In the morning you still have time to make a choice, but by the evening you have already made that choice. Robert Frost also “…took the one less traveled by¨, And that has made all the difference.” Frost comparing the road less traveled to the one that the reader chose to take, Frost himself took the road less traveled. Throughout life people face many different choices and at times one will have to choose to go along with everyone else or to follow their own path, as a whole people tend to choose to go along with everyone else so that they do not stand out.
In life many of us have reality, and we have our imagination. This is displayed in the poem “Birches”. In this poem Robert Frost uses the imagination of a little boy to describe an event that happened in reality. The boy says “When I see birches bend to left and right” (“Birches”, Line 1), the boy is using his imagination. This poem reflects Robert Frost’s childhood. When Robert Frost was a child, he was once on a birch tree branch and there was a click and the tree branch fell (Robert Frost). Robert Frost himself experienced this event “So was I once myself a swinger of birches” (“Birches”, Line 41). In order to describe this event that happened to Frost, he tells it through a boy’s imagination in reality this did happen to Frost, which gives a deeper visual to a reader. The interrelationship between reality and imaginary is bond that can never be broken, imaginations can be used to take people away from reality to be where they want to be.
Robert Frost helped to greatly influence poetry. Frost wrote about topics that would appeal to the common person because his poems were easy to relate to. Robert Frost went on to receive his first of four Pulitzer Prizes, for his book New Hampshire in 1924 (Robert Frost Biography). Today we still learn about Robert Frost and read his poetry because he was an amazing poet that made his poetry relatable. Robert Frost said this in the poem “The Road Not Taken” and this quote stands true about everyone “Two roads…took…one…made all the difference” (Frost).
