How did Robert Frost's personal life change his Poetry?

Poetry is a lyrical way of expressing the writer’s deepest emotions. It is language filled with meaning and meant to be contemplated by the reader. Poetry is pleasing to the ear and the emotions of the words fill poetry with deep meaning. The reader must analyze every word to get the full meaning of a poem. A poet’s personal life can be reflected and dissected within their body of work. The poetry of Robert Frost is an excellent example of both the deeper meaning within poetry and how a writer’s personal tragedy can be turned into something beautiful.

Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 to Isabel Moodie and William Prescott Frost, Jr. His father was a drunk and gambled away everything he earned. Life for young Robert Frost was filled with many problems. In 1879, Frost entered kindergarten but came home after one day because of nervous stomach pain and did not return afterward. He was home schooled for many years after telling his mother he heard voices while he was alone. His mother told him that he shared her gift of “second hearing” and “second sight,” which is the idea that some people hear spirits or ghosts, when no one else can. In 1885 his father died of tuberculosis, leaving his family with only $8.00. After his

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“A blanker whiteness of benighted snow/ With no expression, nothing to express. The other is very happy, and it makes you wish that winter were always so beautiful.

“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama and the Essay. P689

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. The narrator realizes the feelings are controlling his life and eventually all his feeling would be smothered and destroyed just like the snow suffocates the nature below it.

“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is the opposite of “Desert Places. Several of the Frost children were stillborn or died in infancy - they are remembered in the poem Home Burial. So many people are involved in so many things that they can never enjoy what’s happening right now in their lives. He had let despair and loneliness run his life and take over just like the snow had covered all signs of life. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is a heartening poem about enjoying simple things that life has to offer. Solitude can be very depressing, or it can be seen as a time to collect your thoughts without the hassles of the outside world caving in on you.

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