Robert frost as a poet.

Assignment- E C 303: The American literature.

Topic-   Robert frost as a poet.

Name- Vadher Ankita.

Roll no- 12.

Sem- 1

Batch- 2011-12.

Submitted To,

Dr.  Dilip Barad,

Bhavnagar University,

Bhavnagar.

v Introduction:

                    Robert frost is one of the greatest of American poets, whose name is well familiar in India. His images from the New England countryside and his language from New England speech. Although frost’s images and voice often seem familiar and old and his observation have an edge of skepticism and irony his poetry of his poetry helped provide a link between the American poetry of the 19^th century and that of the 20^th century.

v Life : 

   

                   Robert lee frost was born in San Francisco California, on March 26, 1874. His father was a New Englander, and his mother Isabella moodie,

Was a scot who had come to America from Edinburgh, when frost was eleven years old, his father died of tuberculosis then frost family moved to Massachusetts, where William frost wanted to be buried frost attended high school in Lawrence Massachusetts. And began wriling poetry. In 1895, he married elinorwhite the couple eventually had six children, two of then who died young he sold his form and with his wife and four children went to England where they battled in beacon field, Buckinghamshire. Frost attended Harvard College, but he left before receiving a degree. Frost attended Harvard College from 1897 to 1899. In 1900 century the family owned a small poultry farm in New Hampshire, and frost taught at a small private school near by. Frost continued to write poetry, but he was unsuccessful at publishing his work. He get better literary opportunities, the frosts sold their farm and moved to England in 1912. Frost archived his first literary success in England. His book of poems. A boy’s will in 1913 was printed by the first English publisher that first approached. He was elected to the membership of the national instituted of arts in 1916 to membership in the American academy in 1930. Fore time he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Frost second collection, north of Boston, was published in 1914 and also won praise in England frost met other American poets including fellow new England army Lowell and the avent-grade writer Ezra pound but during this time frost’s work was associated with that at the Georgian poet, a group of English writer, the Georgian poets: Robert graves, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred owe and Edward Thomas. He was returned to the United States. While living on farms in Vermont and New Hampshire and teaching literature at Amherst College, the University of Michigan, Harvard University and Dartmouth College. He was given honorary degrees by more than forty colleges and university, including oxford and Cambridge. In 1961 at the inauguration of president john f. Kennedy, frost become the first poet to read a poem the “the gift outright “at a presidential inauguration.

Ø Works:

             Frost’s poetry reflects life in rural New England and the language. He used was the uncomplicated speech that region. He evokes a wide range of emotions and his poems often shift dramatically from humorous tones to tragic ones. Much of his poetry is concerned with how people interact with their environment and he saw the beauty of nature frost disliked free verse; he often wrote in the standard meter of blank verse but ran sentence over several lines so that the poetic meter plays subtly under the rhythm of natural speech. His volume mountain interval in 1916. It was published in America. “The road not taken”, ”an old man’s winter night”, ”putting in the seed” ,”snow”. Frost’s next volume of verses his fourth entitled. New Hampshire was published in 1923 after a long silence of four Pulitzer prizes that he would win over the next 20 years. The volume included longer poems and as well as short meditations on various subjects. Including – “fragmentary blue”, “fire and ice”, “stopping by woods on a snowy evening”, which is frost’s best known poem after an interval of five years in 1928 , frost came out with his fifth volume of the most significant verses of the poet and the major theme of this book is resistance and self realization. Frost’s won his second Pulitzer prize in 1930 for his collected poems and also his next two collections his sixth volume of verse and ‘a witness tree’ won Pulitzers then he wrote two plays in verse the first a masque of mercy and a masque of reason in 1945 received lukewarm praise from critics. ‘a mosque of mercy in 1947 which is a modern treatment of Christian Biblical figures was more successful and his final volumes of poetry were “steeple bush”, and “in the clearing”. 

Ø Rural life:

                  Frost’s poetry is entirely free from such conventional and artificial elements. He has succeeded in capturing the simplicity and naturalness of the Greek masters of this form. Frost as a pastoral poet has been universally recognized new England speaking that part of it which lies north of Boston provides the rural context within which frost’s most characteristic poems him not only with the setting but also with the objects, the includents the events his poetry is a record of their characters and habits, as well as of the various aspects of their life and activity their beliefs, ideals, tradition, and codes of conduct. He does not idealist the rustic and his life; rather he presents him as he is with all the sordid details of the life he leads his poems of rural life are highly suggestive and symbolic., for example: “stopping by woods” is apparently simple but it reality it is highly suggestive and symbolic it suggest the idea that man must sacrifice his desire for pleasure and rest to his duty and work in life. Similarly “mending wall” pictures an include from rural life, but in reality it is highly suggestive. The wall symbolizes all kind of barriers which divide man from man and it suggested in this way prejudices conflicts between nation, religious and economic quarrels.

Ø Regional poet:

                         He has selected the particular region for his purposes is new England and he has represented and interpreted this region precisely in one poem after another, its physical features, its people, its ways, beliefs and codes of conduct, appear and reappear in one poem after another further the industrial sites and fishing villages are ignored by him. There is no mention of railway train and automobiles, factories giving out smoke and radios describe, the people and their occupation which he presents and the language he uses are all peculiar to this selected region important aspect of frost’s regionalism is the fact that he shows the environment, the region acting their nature and attitudes.

Ø Nature poet:

                      Frost is great nature poet. He writes of the natural seem and sights, hills and deals of the region which lies north of Boston. In his view nature and man are two separate principles, and he constantly emphasizes the differences rather than than the similarity of their life and activity, he does not idealize the rustic and his life, rather he presents him as he is withal his deeper understanding of impulses, jealousies, love and hatreds with all the sordid details of the life he leads his poems of rural life are highly suggestive and symbolic.

Ø Conclusion:

                     Thus the Robert frost’s contributed in all sides which he writes his several poetry in different fields includes nature, rural, region and shows his qualities and styles, his experience, and he mention boundaries and barriers in his poetry.