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Robert Frost
Life
he was born in San Francisco > California in 1874
his father was a newspaper editor
his mother was a teacher and a Scottish immigrant
at 11 he was forced to leave America after the death of his father
he moved to Massachusetts where he graduated and started working as a teacher and got married
he moved to a farm in New Hampshire
life was not easy and pressed by poverty
He made a new start in 1912 when he moved to London
here he met Ezra Pound who helped him publish his first Anthology
Nature in Frost's poetry
Frost is considered one of the most finest poet of the 20th century
he was not really a Modernist
in this period poets were experimenting with city life and the modern world
but Frost never embraced them
he paints the picture of a countryman talking about rural life
connection to colours in his poetry
with natural rhythms of grows and decay
most of his poems are nature lyrics
which describe a scene or event in New England life
Frost wrote his poems as metaphors
his language, the setting, and the characters give a metaphorical dimension
American's National poet
Frost won in his life 4 Pulitzer Prize
award regarded as the highest national honour for remarkable achievement in print journalism, literature and musical composition
From the 1930s he was honoured as a national poet and his poetry was in demand
in 1957 he returned to England to receive honorary degrees from Oxford and Cambridge
he died in Boston in 1963