By: Carson Joyce

The Younger Days  Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California.  His father died when Frost was eleven years old on May 5,  Frost graduated from Lawrence High School in  After high school he attended Dartmouth College

 In 1912 Frost sold his farm moved his family to England.  Frost befriended a number of well-known poets ( Ezra Pound) and published two collections- A Boy’s Will and North of Boston  He went on to publish several more volumes of poetry which won many awards.

Major Work  Dedication  Fire and Ice  Mending Wall  Nothing Gold Can Stay  Out, Out-  The Road Not Taken  Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Influences  He uses New England’s landscape and social life style  To write his poems in the context of irony and ambiguity.  By the way modernism captures the readers attention by using universal themes.  Four out of six of his children died, his sister went insane and also the loss of his wife and dog.

Imagery and Symbolism  Writing that describes something in detail, words create sensory stimulation: visual and sound imagery. Specific or recurring images or sounds.  As a type and movement in poetry, emphasized non-structured "internalized" poetry that, for lack of better words, describe thoughts and feelings in disconnected ways and places logic, formal structure, and descriptive reality in the back seat.

The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy and wanted wear, Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I marked the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

 He uses the two roads as roads in life to choose which 0ne to take  The one that’s is the easiest but might not be the best choice

 Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;  The author is wanting you to see a man at a fork in the road and deciding which road to choose.

Quotes  A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.  College is a refuge from hasty judgment.  Education is hanging around until you've caught on.  If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.