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Born in San Francisco, California, in 1874 Roberts parents were involved in journalism and politics and teaching. Robert attended high school in Lawrence, where his first poems where published in the school newspaper. He graduated co-valedictorian and soon after married the valedictorian. Robert tired a few colleges but never finished. He attended Dartmouth and Harvard both for short periods of time but with drew do to children. Growing up Robert wor
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Including mill hand, newspaper reporter, and teacher at his mother’s school. “Whose woods these are I think I know,” he knows because he is Santa. Dec 24, “But I have promises to keep” all the presents need to be delivered. There are, of course, many more possible interpretations, for instance, the driver resists the siren song of the contemplative life in nature and chooses a life of responsibility and activity in culture (Jhan Hochman). ” Is a reindeer, “Darkest evening of the year”….
“Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening was written in just about that way, after I had been working all nigh long on New Hampshire. But the living and dependent horse calls him back with a shake of harmless bells. First, the driver contemplates the purity of life without sin (snow), but decides one must move on-spurred on by the horse-before living as sinless a life as if one were sleeping or dead. And finally, the driver is suicidal since it is the “darkest evening” of the year and wants to walk out into the snowy, dark and deep woods and perish. ” There are four possible meanings to this poem.
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