ROBERT

FROST

Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco,

California. He spent the first 11 years of his life there, until
his journalist father, William Prescott Frost Jr., died of
tuberculosis.Following his father's passing, Frost moved with
his mother and sister, Jeanie, to the town of Lawrence,
Massachusetts. They moved in with his grandparents, and
Frost attended Lawrence High School.

DID YOU KNOW?

Afterspending 40 years In 1894, Frost had his first
poem, "My Butterfly: an
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Elegy," published in The
became known for hsi
Independent, a weekly
works, inclduing "the literary journal based in
toad not taken". He was New York City.
Two poems, "The Tuft of
a special guest at
Flowers" and "The Trial by
president John F. Existence," were published in
Kennedy's inauguration 1906. He could not find any
and also won four publishers who were willing
to underwrite his other
pulitizer Prizes.
poems.
At the age of 86, Frost
was honored when asked to
write and recite a poem for
President John F. Kennedy's
1961 inauguration. His sight
now failing, he was not able
to see the words in the
sunlight and substituted the
reading of one of his poems,
"The Gift Outright," which
he had committed to
memory.
Robert Frost: Social and
Political Conservative
Robert Frost published 11 books of poetry, won four Pulitzer
Prizes, established himself as the unofficial poet laureate of the
United States, and acquired a national and international literary
reputation.Despite his fame as a poet and public speaker, and
because of his friendship with such liberal Democrats as Vice-
President Henry Wallace and President John F. Kennedy, few
Americans are aware that in his social and political philosophy Frost
was a highly original conservative thinker. His thought was wholly
unsystematic, and lacked the coherence and unity of the abstract
systems of speculative philosophy.

I never dared be radical when young

For fear it would make me conservative when old.
These lines express Frost's characteristic prudent temperament and
moderation between political extremes; he avoided intellectual
disillusionments by refusing initially to commit himself to ideological
illusionist.

Frost's social and political conservatism was part of his total dualistic
philosophy, which assumed that "reality" consisted of two basic
elements—matter and spirit, each complex in itself, but made
doubly so by their constant and unresolved interactions. He stated
that the universe consists of "endless . . . things in pairs ordained to
everlasting opposition," and that "the philosopher values himself on
the inconsistencies he can contain by main force.

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Original Filipino
version Translation
 My Translation

Ang daan sa kakahuyan ay nahahati sa dalawa

Ngunit ang kailangan piliin ay iisa
Isang Naglalakbay na nakatayo
Tinatanaw ang daan na tatahakin
At kung hang saan ba aabutin

Hinahangad na ang Napili ay makakabuti

Mas kaaya aya, maaliwas kesa sa nauna
Ngunit napagtanto sa paglalakbay
Ang dalawa ay walang pinagkaiba.

Parehong araw nasisikatan sila

Sa mga damong tila ba hindi makaapak.
Susubukang tingnan ang isa sa ibang araw
Ngunit sa daan patungo ay napaisip
Kung dapat bang bumalik pa.

Ito ay dapat winiwikang may Bugtong hiniga

Sa darating ng mga taon at panahon
AKo’y nasa gitna ng dalawang kakahuyan
Pinili ang daan na di na tatahak
At yun ang nakapagbigay ng malaking pagbabago.
Lamboloto JanJee Yeddah C.
SED301

Compare your translation to one done

by another poet. (including the
translation method used)

As I read the the translation the I made from the

poe then read the translated poem by another
author. I notice that the way he translated it is
much neatly than the one i make. We both
translated it directly some lines I tired to use other
words but remain the thought.