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Road Not Taken
By: Robert Frost
Poem:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
About Author:
Robert Frost, in full Robert Lee Frost, Frost (1874-1963), the most well-known of
American poets, was born in the United States. He is referred to as "America's
Voice." His poetry begins with joy and knowledge. One of the most celebrated
figures in American poetry, Robert Frost was the author of numerous poetry
collections, including New Hampshire (Henry Holt and Company, 1923). Born in San
Francisco in 1874, he lived and taught for many years in Massachusetts and
Vermont. He died in Boston in 1963.
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Robert Frost (American Poet)
Born: 26 March 1874, San Francisco, California, United States
Died: 29 January 1963, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Biography:
Robert Frost was born in the city of San Francisco, California, in the year 1874.
Frost's father was a newspaper editor (a profession he eventually pursued), and his
mother was a teacher and a Scottish immigrant. His family relocated to
Massachusetts when he was approximately ten years old to be near his grandfather,
who owned a sawmill. Frost was chosen valedictorian and "class poet" of his high
school graduating class and two years later, in the New York Independent
magazine, he published his first poem, "My Butterfly: An Elegy." Frost understood he
wanted to be a poet at this point. The following phase of Frost's life, however,
would be marked by turbulence. He went to both Dartmouth and Harvard, but
dropped out before graduating from both. In the United States, poetry was also
failing to acquire traction. Frost and his wife, Elinor, had personal sorrow when two
of their six children died in infancy, further complicating issues.
Frost moved his family to a farm granted to him by his grandparents in Derry, New
Hampshire, in 1900, disappointed by his work prospects and lack of momentum in
his poetry career. Many of Frost's most famous early poems were written before his
morning chores while caring for the farm, and he would dwell there for nine years.
However, American publishers mostly neglected Frost's poetry. As a result, Frost
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sold the property in 1911 and relocated his family to London. He released his first
anthology of poems there.
In 1913, he wrote “A Boy's Will.” Frost's second anthology was published in 1914 and
was a huge hit in England. After years of labor, Frost became a well-known poet
almost suddenly. Frost went to the United States in 1915 to avoid WWI and resumed
teaching at Amherst College and the University of Michigan while continuing to
create poetry. He won countless medals and accolades, including the Pulitzer Prize
for Poetry, and became the public face of American poetry in the twentieth century.
Robert Frost became the first inaugural poet at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in
1960, at the age of 86. Frost never moved far from old-fashioned, pastoral poetry
during his career, despite the fact that contemporary American writers did.
Even if his farming skills weren't up to par with the pros, the estate itself did
wonders for his writing. According to Frost, "I might say that The core of all my
writing was probably the five free years I had there on the farm down the road a mile or
two from Derry Village toward Lawrence. The only thing we had was time and seclusion.
I couldn't have figured on it in advance. I didn't have that kind of foresight. But it turned
out right as a doctor's prescription."
Awards:
● Pulitzer Prize, New Hampshire (1924)
● Honorary degree, Yale University (1924)
● Russell Loines Poetry Prize (1931)
● Pulitzer Prize, Collected Poems (1931)
● Honorary degree, Dartmouth College (1933)
● Pulitzer Prize, A Further Range (1937)
● Honorary degree, Harvard University (1937)
● Gold Medal for Poetry, National Institute of Arts and Letters (1939)
● Gold Medal, Poetry Society of America (1941)
● Honorary degree, Princeton University (1941)
● Pulitzer Prize, A Witness Tree (1943)
● First Annual Poetry Award, Boston Arts Festival (1954)
● Medal for Distinguished Service, Theodore Roosevelt Society (1954)
● Honorary degree, Oxford University (1957)
● Honorary degree, Cambridge University (1957)
● Gold Medal for Distinguished Service, Poetry Society of America (1958)
● Emerson-Thoreau Medal, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1958)
● Medal for Achievements in the Arts, Signet Society, Harvard College (1958)
● Congressional Gold Medal (1960)
Road Not Taken
By: Robert Frost
Poem:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
About Author:
Robert Frost, in full Robert Lee Frost, Frost (1874-1963), the most well-known of
American poets, was born in the United States. He is referred to as "America's
Voice." His poetry begins with joy and knowledge. One of the most celebrated
figures in American poetry, Robert Frost was the author of numerous poetry
collections, including New Hampshire (Henry Holt and Company, 1923). Born in San
Francisco in 1874, he lived and taught for many years in Massachusetts and
Vermont. He died in Boston in 1963.
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Robert Frost (American Poet)
Born: 26 March 1874, San Francisco, California, United States
Died: 29 January 1963, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Biography:
Robert Frost was born in the city of San Francisco, California, in the year 1874.
Frost's father was a newspaper editor (a profession he eventually pursued), and his
mother was a teacher and a Scottish immigrant. His family relocated to
Massachusetts when he was approximately ten years old to be near his grandfather,
who owned a sawmill. Frost was chosen valedictorian and "class poet" of his high
school graduating class and two years later, in the New York Independent
magazine, he published his first poem, "My Butterfly: An Elegy." Frost understood he
wanted to be a poet at this point. The following phase of Frost's life, however,
would be marked by turbulence. He went to both Dartmouth and Harvard, but
dropped out before graduating from both. In the United States, poetry was also
failing to acquire traction. Frost and his wife, Elinor, had personal sorrow when two
of their six children died in infancy, further complicating issues.
Frost moved his family to a farm granted to him by his grandparents in Derry, New
Hampshire, in 1900, disappointed by his work prospects and lack of momentum in
his poetry career. Many of Frost's most famous early poems were written before his
morning chores while caring for the farm, and he would dwell there for nine years.
However, American publishers mostly neglected Frost's poetry. As a result, Frost
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sold the property in 1911 and relocated his family to London. He released his first
anthology of poems there.
In 1913, he wrote “A Boy's Will.” Frost's second anthology was published in 1914 and
was a huge hit in England. After years of labor, Frost became a well-known poet
almost suddenly. Frost went to the United States in 1915 to avoid WWI and resumed
teaching at Amherst College and the University of Michigan while continuing to
create poetry. He won countless medals and accolades, including the Pulitzer Prize
for Poetry, and became the public face of American poetry in the twentieth century.
Robert Frost became the first inaugural poet at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in
1960, at the age of 86. Frost never moved far from old-fashioned, pastoral poetry
during his career, despite the fact that contemporary American writers did.
Even if his farming skills weren't up to par with the pros, the estate itself did
wonders for his writing. According to Frost, "I might say that The core of all my
writing was probably the five free years I had there on the farm down the road a mile or
two from Derry Village toward Lawrence. The only thing we had was time and seclusion.
I couldn't have figured on it in advance. I didn't have that kind of foresight. But it turned
out right as a doctor's prescription."
Awards:
● Pulitzer Prize, New Hampshire (1924)
● Honorary degree, Yale University (1924)
● Russell Loines Poetry Prize (1931)
● Pulitzer Prize, Collected Poems (1931)
● Honorary degree, Dartmouth College (1933)
● Pulitzer Prize, A Further Range (1937)
● Honorary degree, Harvard University (1937)
● Gold Medal for Poetry, National Institute of Arts and Letters (1939)
● Gold Medal, Poetry Society of America (1941)
● Honorary degree, Princeton University (1941)
● Pulitzer Prize, A Witness Tree (1943)
● First Annual Poetry Award, Boston Arts Festival (1954)
● Medal for Distinguished Service, Theodore Roosevelt Society (1954)
● Honorary degree, Oxford University (1957)
● Honorary degree, Cambridge University (1957)
● Gold Medal for Distinguished Service, Poetry Society of America (1958)
● Emerson-Thoreau Medal, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1958)
● Medal for Achievements in the Arts, Signet Society, Harvard College (1958)
● Congressional Gold Medal (1960)
