1. ROBERT FROST
RUTU BHATT
ROLL NO-43
CLASS-9A
ST.XAVIER’S HIGH SCHOOL

2. Robert Frost : A 20th Century American Poet
One of the Pastoral poets of New England.
Four-time winner of Pulitzer Prize.

3. Robert Frost
Robert Frost ( ) was one of the major American poets of the 20th century.
Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco and educated at Dartmouth College and Harvard University. In 1885 his father died, and his mother moved with the family to Lawrence, Massachusetts. After graduation from high school, Frost sporadically attended college and earned his living by working variously as a bobbin boy in a wool mill, a shoemaker, a country schoolteacher, the editor of a rural newspaper, and a farmer. He also wrote poetry, but he had little success in having his poems published.

4. PLACE OF DEATH PLACE OF BIRTH Robert Frost’s Place of Birth
Frost’s Place of Death
PLACE OF DEATH
PLACE OF BIRTH

5. Frost’s love for poetry
In 1912 Frost sold his farm, gave up a teaching post at the New Hampshire State Normal School, and went to live in England. There he met such established poets as Lascelles Abercrombie and the young poet Rupert Brooke (then unknown outside the narrow upper-class circles), who became his friends and did much to aid his literary career. With their help, Frost published his first two volumes of poetry, a group of lyrics entitled A Boy's Will (1913) and a series of dramatic monologues called North of Boston (1914).

6. His works
A Boy's Will (1913) and a series of dramatic monologues called North of Boston (1914) won him immediate recognition, and in 1915 Frost returned to the United States to find that his fame had preceded him. Thereafter he continued to write poetry with increasing success, while living on farms in Vermont and New Hampshire and teaching literature at Amherst College, the University of Michigan, Harvard University, and Dartmouth College.

7. His works and recognition
Among the volumes of poetry he produced are Mountain Interval (1916), West-Running Brook (1928), A Further Range (1936), A Masque of Reason (1945), and In the Clearing (1962). Frost was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry four times (1924, 1931, 1937, 1943); in 1961, at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy, he became the first poet to read a poem at a presidential inauguration. He died January 29, 1963, in Boston.

8. Frost’s poetry
Frost's poetry is based mainly upon the life and scenery of rural New England, and the language of his verse reflects the compact idiom of that region. Although he concentrates on ordinary subject matter, his emotional range is wide and deep, and he is capable of shifting in the same poem from a tone of humorous banter to the passionate expression of tragic experience. The underlying philosophy of Frost's poetry is rooted in traditional New England individualism, and his work shows his strong sympathy for the values of early American society.

9. Robert Frost- American Poet
Postage Stamp issued on March 26, 1974 to commemorate the first birth centenary of the American Bard.

10. The Frost Place is now a centre for poetry and the arts housing a poet each summer to give readings in the old timber barn. Frost lived here with his wife, and four children from 1915 to 1920 after returning from two-and-a-half years in England. While living in Bethlehem, he found this house and barn, built on Ore Hill with an excellent view of Mount Lafayette (visible in the background graphic). The owner, Willis Herbert, agreed to sell the property for a thousand dollars.

11. "The Road Not Taken" is one of Frost's poems displayed on the nature trail at the Frost Farm.

12. THEME
Many times in life we are faced with alternative choices. It is often difficult to decide which one to choose but the decision we take influences our future.
The decision that we reflect upon should not be guided by the conventions. One must give a trial to the ‘un trodden path’ and be adventurous. Who knows what destiny has in store for us?
When you have a choice make the correct choice, think what are the long term consequences.

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