1. Robert Frost

2. Early Years

3. Early Years
Robert Frost, circa 1910
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California, to journalist William Prescott Frost, Jr., and
Isabelle Moodie. His mother was of Scottish descent, and his father descended from Nicholas
Frost of Tiverton, Devon, England, who had sailed to New Hampshire in 1634 on theWolfrana.
Frost's father was a teacher and later an editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin (which later
merged with the San Francisco Examiner), and an unsuccessful candidate for city tax collector.
After his death on May 5, 1885, the family moved across the country to Lawrence,
Massachusetts, under the patronage of (Robert's grandfather) William Frost, Sr., who was an
overseer at a New England mill. Frost graduated from Lawrence High School in 1892. Frost's
mother joined the Swedenborgian church and had him baptized in it, but he left it as an adult.
Although known for his later association with rural life, Frost grew up in the city, and he published
his first poem in his high school's magazine. He attended Dartmouth College for two months,
long enough to be accepted into the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. Frost returned home to teach
and to work at various jobs – including helping his mother teach her class of unruly boys,
delivering newspapers, and working in a factory as an arclight carbon filament changer. He did
not enjoy these jobs, feeling his true calling was poetry.

4. Adult Years

5. Adult Years
In 1895, Frost married Elinor Miriam White, who became a major inspiration
in his poetry until her death in 1938. The couple moved to England in 1912,
after their New Hampshire farm failed, and it was abroad that Frost met
and was influenced by such contemporary British poets as Edward
Thomas, Rupert Brooke, and Robert Graves. While in England, Frost also
established a friendship with the poet Ezra Pound, who helped to promote
and publish his work.
By the time Frost returned to the United States in 1915, he had published two
full-length collections, A Boy's Will and North of Boston, and his
reputation was established. By the nineteen-twenties, he was the most
celebrated poet in America, and with each new book—including New
Hampshire (1923), A Further Range(1936), Steeple Bush (1947), and In
the Clearing (1962)—his fame and honors (including four Pulitzer Prizes)
increased.

6. Adult Years
Though his work is principally associated with the life and landscape
of New England, and though he was a poet of traditional verse
forms and metrics who remained steadfastly aloof from the poetic
movements and fashions of his time, Frost is anything but a merely
regional or minor poet. The author of searching and often dark
meditations on universal themes, he is a quintessentially modern
poet in his adherence to language as it is actually spoken, in the
psychological complexity of his portraits, and in the degree to which
his work is infused with layers of ambiguity and irony.
In a 1970 review of The Poetry of Robert Frost, the poet Daniel
Hoffman describes Frost's early work as "the Puritan ethic turned
astonishingly lyrical and enabled to say out loud the sources of its
own delight in the world," and comments on Frost's career as The
American Bard: "He became a national celebrity, our nearly official
Poet Laureate, and a great performer in the tradition of that earlier
master of the literary vernacular, Mark Twain."

7. Adult Years
About Frost, President John F. Kennedy said, "He has
bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from
which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding."
Robert Frost lived and taught for many years in
Massachusetts and Vermont, and died in Boston on
January 29, 1963.

8. The following phrase is from his poem ‗‘The road not
taken ‗‘…
‗Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one
less traveled by, And that has made all the difference‘

9. Bibliography (poems)
 After Apple-Picking  A Girl's Garden  A Patch of Old Snow
 Acquainted with the night  Going for Water  The Pasture
 The Aim Was Song  Good Hours  Plowmen
 An Old Man's Winter Night  Good-bye, and Keep Cold  A Prayer in Spring
 The Armful  The Gum-Gatherer  Provide, Provide
 Asking for Roses  A Hundred Collars  Putting in the Seed
 The Bear  Hannibal  Quandary
 Bereft  The Hill Wife  A Question (poem)
 Birches  Home Burial  Reluctance
 The Black Cottage  Hyla Brook  Revelation
 Bond and Free  In a Disused Graveyard  The Road Not Taken
 A Boundless Moment  In a Poem  The Road That Lost its Reason
 A Brook in the City  In Hardwood Groves  The Rose Family
 But Outer Space  In Neglect  Rose Pogonias
 Choose Something Like a Star  In White (Frost's Early Version of "Design")  The Runaway
 A Cliff Dwelling  Into My Own  The Secret Sits
 The Code  A Late Walk  The Self-Seeker
 Come In  Leaves Compared with Flowers  A Servant to Servants
 A Considerable Speck  The Lesson for Today  The Silken Tent
 The Cow in Apple-Time  The Line-Gang  A Soldier
 The Death Of The Hired Man  A Line-Storm Song  The Sound of the Trees
 Dedication  The Lockless Door  The Span of Life
 The Demiurge's Laugh  Love and a Question  Spring Pools
 Devotion  Lure of the West  The Star-Splitter
 Departmental  Meeting and Passing  Stars
 Desert Places  Mending Wall  Stopping by woods on a snowing evening
 Design  A Minor Bird  Storm Fear
 Directive  The Mountain  The Telephone
 A Dream Pang  Mowing  They Were Welcome to Their Belief
 Dust of Snow  My Butterfly  A Time to Talk
 The Egg and the Machine  My November Guest  To E.T.
 Evening in a Sugar Orchard  The Need of Being Versed in Country Things  To Earthward
 The Exposed Nest  Neither Out Far Nor in Deep  To the Thawing Wind
 The Fear  Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same  Tree at My Window
 Fire and Ice (1920)  Not to Keep  The Trial by Existence
 Fireflies in the Garden  Nothing Gold Can Stay  The Tuft of Flowers
 The Flower Boat  Now Close the Windows  Two Look at Two
 Flower-Gathering  October  Two Tramps in Mud Time
 For Once, Then Something  On a Tree Fallen across the Road  The Vanishing Red
 Fragmentary Blue  On Looking up by Chance at the Constellations  The Vantage Point
 Gathering Leaves  Once by the Pacific (1916)  War Thoughts at Home
 God's Garden  One Step Backward Taken  What Fifty Said
 The Generations of Men  Out, Out-- (1916)  The Witch of Coös
 Ghost House  The Oven Bird  The Wood-Pile
 The Gift Oughtright  Pan With Us

10. Bibliography (poetry collections)
 North of Boston (David Nutt, 1914; Holt, 1914)
 ―Mendig Wall‖
 A Boy's Will (Holt, 1915)
 Mountain Interval (Holt, 1916)
 ―The Road Not Taken‘‘
 Selected Poems (Holt, 1923)
 Includes poems from first three volumes and the poem The Runaway New Hampshire (Holt, 1923; Grant Richards, 1924)
 Several Short Poems (Holt, 1924)
 Selected Poems (Holt, 1928)
 West -Running Brook (Holt, 1928? 1929)
 The Lovely Shall Be Choosers, The Poetry Quartos, printed and illustrated by Paul Johnston (Random House, 1929)
 Collected Poems of Robert Frost (Holt, 1930; Longmans, Green, 1930)
 The Lone Striker (Knopf, 1933)
 Selected Poems: Third Edition (Holt, 1934)
 Three Poems (Baker Library, Dartmouth College, (1935)
 The Gold Hesperidee (Bibliophile Press, 1935)
 From Snow to Snow (Holt, 1936)
 A Further Range (Holt, 1936; Cape, 1937)
 Collected Poems of Robert Frost (Holt, 1939; Longmans, Green, 1939)
 A Witness Tree (Holt, 1942; Cape, 1943)
 Come In, and Other Poems (1943)
 Steeple Bush (Holt, 1947)
 Complete Poems of Robert Frost, 1949 (Holt, 1949; Cape, 1951)
 Hard Not To Be King (House of Books, 1951)
 Aforesaid (Holt, 1954)
 A Remembrance Collection of New Poems (Holt, 1959)
 You Come Too (Holt, 1959; Bodley Head, 1964)
 In the Clearing (Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1962)
 The Poetry of Robert Frost (New York, 1969)
 A Further Range (published as Further Range in 1926, as New Poems by Holt, 1936; Cape, 1937)
 What Fifty Said
 Fire And Ice
 A Drumlin Woodchuck

11. …THE END…
By Manos Dragatidis A1