Robert Frost Influences

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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on,” Robert Frost had once said this. [Granted], Robert Frost born in 1874, had wrote many poems and books throughout his lifetime in Missouri. Robert Frost, a four time pulitzer prize winning poet, was successful even though he dealt with many losses in his life. Robert Frost lived a long life with happiness and sadness, but all the while he still pulled through it all. Robert Frost, born on March 26, 1874, graduated from Lawrence High School in 1892(Biography.com). One of his poems, “My Butterfly: an Elegy,” was published in 1894, it was his first one published(Biography.com). A year later Robert Frost married Elinor White on December 19, 1895(Biography.com). By 1896, their first child, a boy, Elliot Frost …show more content…
Edward Thomas had inspired his most famous poem, “The Road Not Taken,”(Biography.com). During Frost’s time as trying to be a farmer his neighbor, Napoleon Guay, inspired his poem, “Mending Wall,”(Frost Farm). The New England landscape had influenced many of Frost’s poems(Frost Farm). Ezra Pound, a literary notable, encouraged much of Frost’s works(Biography.com). In literary history Robert Frost’s place is secure and his popularity continues to increase(Frost …show more content…
Many of Frost’s poems show each of the different themes. In, “The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost’s poem with the theme of individualism appears when he says, “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-/I took the one less traveled by,” because he chose the path that was less taken. Robert Frost’s lifetime had many tragedies and successes. He lost many family members, but kept moving on. Robert Frost was successful even though he had many losses throughout his life, and he had won four pulitzer

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