Robert Frost Biography ppt

1. ROBERT FROST
1874-1963

2. NAME- Akshit
CLASS- IX RED
ROLL NO.- 2
SUBJECT- ENGLISH
SUBMITED TO- Mrs Saleela Mohan Mam

3. Introduction
Robert Frost, in full Robert Lee Frost, born on
March 26, 1874, San Francisco, California, U.S,
American poet who was much admired for his
depictions of the rural life of New England, his
command of American colloquial speech, and his
realistic verse portraying ordinary people in
everyday situations.He is well known for his realistic
depictions of rural life and his command of
colloquial speech. He died on 29 January,1963 in
Boston,Massachusetts,USA.

4. CHILDHOOD
• Robert Frost was born in the year 1874 in the
city of San Francisco, California. His father,
William Prescott Frost, was a journalist.
Robert Frost was not a particularly successful
man during his lifetime, yet his death might
feel like a curse at times. He began his career
as a teacher before becoming an editor in
the city of San Francisco. His father was
rough around the edges journalist who drank
hard carried a pistol and kept a jar of pickled
bull testicles on his desk.

5. CAREER
After dropping out of college and assisting his
mother at work, Robert Frost began teaching. He
also worked odd jobs like delivering newspapers
and working in carbon arc light facility.He
concluded none of his tried occupations satisfied
him and that poetry was his actual passion. My
Butterfly is a poem written by him. An Elegy was
first published in the New York Independent on
November 8, 1894. He received $15 for it.Robert
Frost studied at Harvard University from 1897 to
1899 but was unable to complete his degree due
to health problems. Frost worked on a farm for
many years in Derri.

7. FIRE AND ICE
Some say the world will end in
fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
- Robert Frost

8. Nothing Gold can Stay
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue is hold,
Her early leaves a flower,
But only so and hour,
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can say.
- Robert Frost

9. Robert Frost won four Pulitzer Prizes. He won his
first Pulitzer Prize in 1924, for his book "New
Hampshire" and then he won his next three
Pulitzer Prizes for his works "Collected Poems"
in 1931, "A Further Range" in 1937, and "A
Witness Tree" in 1943.Congress awarded Frost
"the Congressional Gold Medal" in 1960. He also
won the "Bollingen Prize" in 1963. He also won a
United states poet laureate award in 1958.

10. DEATH
Frost died of complications from
prostate surgery on January 29, 1963 in
Boston. His epitaph quotes:
“I had a lover’s quarrel with the
world.”