Frost as a poet.

Topic:Q.1 Robert Frost as a poet.

Name: Makwana Ankita M.

Roll No:01

Paper No:10 The American Literature

Semester:3

Submitted to: By Department of English

v      Biography.                                       

Ø Born: 1874.

Ø Died : 1963

Ø Occupation: Poet, Playwright.   

Ø One of the most popular poet of the American. His mother was of Scottish descent Frost father was a teacher later on editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin. After his death, the family moved across the country to Lawrence high school in 1892.

v     About his personal life.

Ø Frost personal life is not good. In 1885 when Frost father died leaving the family with just eight dollars. His mother died of cancer in 1900.

v     About his achievement.

Ø In 1924, he won the first of four Pulitzer Prize for the book “New Hampshire”.

Ø In 1960 he received the United States congressial Gold Medal for his poetry Mecognition.

v     About his works.

Ø “Stopping by Woods”

Ø “Fire and Ice”

Ø “The Gift Outright”

Ø “Design”

Ø “Mending wall”

Ø “Home Burial”

v     About his Lyrics.

Ø In the lyric of “A Boy’s Will”, representing the long thoughts of the artist as a young man, the stanzaic form follows the conventions of the couplet, the quatrain, the sonnet and the ballad.

Ø The circle and rather spiral pattern of complementary moods, in “a Boy’s Will”, is enriched by an arranged progression of responses to the cycle of nature, starting with a  subdued enjoyment of the autumnal mood, moving through deeds and image of Winter, Spring , Summer and finally returning “with a difference” to autumnal setting.

Ø Cycle of nature.

v      Frost poet of nature and Theme of Nature.

Ø He was a nature poet. He found beauty and meaning. Frost said over and over….

“I am not a nature poet.

There is almost always a

Person in my poems…”

Ø Frost is not trying to tell us how nature works. He also wrote poems about ‘Human Psychology’. Frost uses nature as a background. Nature is separate and independent from man.

Ø He said “I have no doubts about my beliefs”.

Ø His themes and ideas are wonderful.

Ø First in the poem ‘Stopping by the Woods’ there is a lot of nature expressed. First Frost talking about…

“Whose Woods these are we don’t know….”

Ø He also talking about narrator likes to sit and watch the snow. He is also a nature lover. In the second stanza he talking about ice and because he brings ice. Frost also changes his nature view from woods to water. Water is the sign of being powerful. He also shows some flowers and trees are also related with the nature. He also understands nature.

v About his Poems.

Ø ‘Design’ is a very impressive sonnet. It is about an isty-bisty spider, a flower and a Moth. Frost changing the meaning of Design.

Ø ‘Fire and Ice’ Fire and Ice are opposites.

‘Fire’ it is a symbol for desire.

‘Ice’ it is a symbol for hate.

Both are connected with human nature. Relationship is one of the main theme of this poem.

Ø ‘The Gift of Outright’ The subject of this poem is American history. It is a statement about the history and future of the United State of America.

Ø Conclusion.

His another poem ‘Home Burial’ He uses ironic and paradox style.it is a dialogue between husband and wife Some of his best lyrics are….

‘Spring Pools’, ‘A Peck of Gold’, ‘Tree at My Window’, ‘The soldier’.