robert frost
In the early 1900's, Robert Frost, emerging from a troubled life of poverty, sought to reform and revive his life. His efforts were met with great success. This paper analyzes the influences on Robert Frost's poetry, which led to his large scale achievement. Although Robert Frost is widely known as a New England poet, he was actually born in San Francisco, California, on March 26, 1874 (American Writers 150). His father, William Prescott Frost, was a native of New England,and his mother, Isabelle Moodie Frost, was a Scottish emigrant from Edinburgh. They met while they were both teaching school in Lewiston, Pennsylvania, and moved west after their marriage (Robert Frost 5). The relationship between Robert's father and mother was later a major influence on the subject of his poems in his collection, "North of Boston." In this collection, there were frequent appearances of instances where husbands and wives were at odds due to their inability to communicate their feelings and to find common ground. These grueling portraits seemed to depict the Frost's failing marriage (Parini 10). Many of the problems in the family were caused by William's overuse of alcohol. A few months after Robert's birth, William began to get a
Pleased with his achievement, Frost once again tried to get Elinor to marry him. At that time some of his poems were based on poems he had read (Emily Dickinson's) or nature (Parini 25). For reasons of pride and economics, he could no longer refuse invitations to give public readings and speeches. It was there that his neighbor Napoleon Guay said "Good fences make good neighbors"to Frost as he was repairing the crumbling wall (www. One example is in the poem "Mending Wall,"a poem written about the stone wall surrounding the farm. The next job he held was at the Arlington Woolen Mill. Robert and his family left for Lawrence, Massachusetts to fulfill their father's wish to be buried in New England and to start a new life (American Writers 151). After a few months Belle began to teach the fourth and fifth grades in Salem Depot, New Hampshire and was able to get a home for family (www. For the next few years, Robert held a number of odd jobs. In less than a year, Frost gave speeches from Maine to Texas (American Writers 152). " With his wife's help, Frost organized 32 poems to be published. Wanting an escape from her failing marriage, Isabelle turned to the Swedenborgian Church, whose elaborate system of beliefs kept her focused on religion rather than her unhappiness.
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