NAME: SALMAN ALI

ROLL NO: PC-191

CLASS: BS 8th

SECTION: (A)

ASSIGNMENT: ROBERT FROST

SUBMITTED TO: MADAM SAMIA SHAKEEL

DATE: 5/6/2020
INTRODUCTION
Robert Frost, was born in San Francisco in 1874.  His father, William Prescott Frost, Jr., died of
tuberculosis in 1885, so his mother, Isabelle Moodie Frost, moved with her two children, Robert
and Jeanie, to Lawrence, Massachusetts, where she taught school to support her family.  During
his high school years, Robert fell in love with Elinor White, who also shared his interest in
poetry, and he and Elinor married in 1895.  They had six children, but two of them died early,
leaving one boy and three girls.  

Robert Frost graduated from high school in 1892 as a valedictorian. Then, he attended
Dartmouth College for one year before leaving.  He later attended Harvard for two years before
withdrawing.  He struggled to supported his family by teaching and farming and to publish his
poems, and he experienced little success.  Frost moved with his family to England to farm and
write poetry from 1912-1915; his first book (A Boy's Will) was published in London in 1913. 
Frost then returned to New Hampshire to farm, write poetry, and teach; from that point, his
reputation grew rapidly.

Works and Lagacy

The greatest of all modern poets, T.S. Eliot and many other poets are profoundly influenced by
the technique and themes of the imagist Robert Frost. Pound thanked him for 1breaking away
from “stilted Pseudo- literary language” and daring to write in the Natural speech of new-
England. His poetry is deceptively simple, He uses speech tones for his poetic style. Though his
style is speech rhythm, it is elevated and inimitable. Frost further created the illusion of a new
England Farmer-poet writing the poetry of opinion, the woods, since Frost stroke strove hard
towards pastoral poetry of the woods that are lovely, dark deep and Frosty. He has come out of
the restrictions of the contemporary poets in their quest for new ways to be new and teased
them for their desperate attempts to follow same body. He said, “Poetry, for example, was
tried without punctuation. It was tried without capital letters. It was tried without any image
but those to the eye. It was tried without phrase, epigram, coherence, logic and consistency. It
was tried without ability, these many things was it tried without, and what had we left? Still
something “–Frosts” introduction to king Jasper. These restrictions amused Frost. Frost has said
many times that there is a striking analogy between the course of a true poem and that of a
true love, each begins as an impulse, a disturbing excitement to which the individual surrenders
himself. “No one can really hold that the ecstasy should be static and stand still in one place. It
begins in delight, it inclines to the impulse, it assumes direction with the first line laid down, it
runs the course of lucky events and ends in a clarification of life “–Frosts” The Figure a poem
Makes
Comparison between Wordsworth and Robert
Frost
It has been well said that Nature is the Bible in which man may read all things. Nature
serves man for commodity for beauty for language and for discipline. To the receptive
man, Nature speaks at all times and in all places. The same love, attraction and delight
are with these two nature poets- William Wordsworth and Robert Lee Frost.The points
of divergence between the two nature poets who belong to two different countries and of
course they have treated nature in a different manner. It is very important and should
not escape the wary reader’s mind that is alert and receptive to subtleties.

Both Wordsworth and Frost wrote in the ordinary language of ordinary people. Frost's poetry,
to use his own words, “begins in delight and ends in wisdom”, whereas Wordsworth's poetry
“begins in delight and ends in delight.” Frost's wisdom is best reflected in the immortal line
in Mending Wall: “Good fences make good neighbors.” In Byron's view, Wordsworth is “dull,
over-mild and flat like a sauce into which the cook had forgotten to shake pepper.” Unlike
Wordsworth, Frost is less egotistical and he maintains what Eliot terms as 'artistic detachment.”
Except in elegies, Frost does not always involve himself in the subject matter of his poetry.
Both poets consciously avoided the rhetorical extravaganza of William Shakespeare and
grandiloquence of John Milton. Frost was able to capture the natural tone of human
conversation. His poem, A Boy's Will, captures the reader's attention not only for the theme but
also for plainness of expression. Ideas, emotions and feelings are expressed in ordinary
speeches. The same is true of Wordsworth. My views about Frost are a bit different. Frost is
deceptively plain whereas Wordsworth is genuinely simple. Frost's poetry contains plain words
but complex thoughts whereas Wordsworth's poetry has plain words and plain thoughts.
Wordsworth is plain both in manner and matter. He is never pretentious, covert and deceptive.
Both Wordsworth and Frost are democratic in style as they speak “to men in the tongue all men
know because they are men.” Wordsworth is more comparable to Whitman than Frost. In
Frost, plainness is present but it is a deceptive plainness. In deceptive simplicity, Frost reveals
the complexities of rural life in the garb of plain words. Many of his monosyllabic words were
difficult to comprehend as these were charged with symbolic meanings. The body of his poetry
wears an ordinary garment but beneath it remain messages that need one to introspect for
clear understanding. Frost uses symbols taken from nature to express the intended meanings or
messages.
For Wordsworth, poetry is the outcome of personal spiritual or mystical experience---
experience is the antecedent and poems are the consequent. In fact, experience causes
expression, and expression becomes a spontaneous outburst. For Frost, poetry begins
consciously and it ends unconsciously. In Wordsworth's poetry, nature is supreme, where
humans and nature forge an intimate communion; humans and nature are never found hostile
to each other. In Frost, rural people are supreme and nature has been made subordinate to
humans. It is hard to describe Frost as the poet of nature, if we determine Wordsworth as the
standard. Frost himself admits: “We have had nature poetry for a hundred years.” He is
 interested in locating the relations between nature and humans. It is true that both poets
sought to find solace and delight in nature. The poem Birches offers the best example of how
the poet blends observation and imagination, fact and fancy, feeling and wisdom.

Robert Frost’s Most Famous Poems

Some of Frost’s most well-known poems include:

 “The Road Not Taken”

 “Birches”
 “Fire and Ice”
 “Mending Wall”
 “Home Burial”
 “The Death of the Hired Man”
 “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”
 “Acquainted with the Night”
 “Out, Out”
 “Nothing Gold Can Stay”

In a 1963 eulogy for Robert Frost, John F. Kennedy described poetry as "the means of
saving power from itself.
Robert Frost‟s poetry is the poetry that never pretends. It is the poerty of conversation and
plain style. It seems up the past and enlivens the present for a happy and wise future. It
transcends time and space. It is universal in its appeal. It is powerful enough to express both
things and thoughts. It is symbolic it plays on the modern technique of contrasts and
suggestions. “We talked and laughed, but for the most part listened while Robert Frost kept on
and on and on”. Holding us with shrewd turns and racy quips like a piece of ice on hot coals his
poetry melts on to its his ultimate goal- beginning gin delight and ends in wisdom .