Surname 4 Name Instructor Course Date Robert Frost Art can be manifested in various ways. Some of the common ways include drawing, dressing and even through poetry. Poetry is, therefore, a way of depicting art through the use of figurative language. The poet, therefore, has a role to play to ensure that they are able to communicate their ideas effectively. Poets use various styles and forms of writing to distinguish their work and communicate with the targeted audience. One of the most commonly re-known poets is Robert Frost. This paper will examine a quick biography of Robert Frost, themes that Robert Frost covers and the motifs that Frost has used in most of his works. Bibliography Robert Frost was born on March 26th, 1874 in San Francisco, California in the United States. Little is known of his past but when he came into scenes, his work was being published in England before it was published in America. Most of his work is about the social and philosophical themes of life using the rural settings of his articles. He realistically depicted rural life using his strong command of American colloquial speech. He began his career as a poet late in high school and worked on it while in Dartmouth College where he dropped out in less than a year. He joined Harvard University where he also left after two years. Frost was a poet and a playwright with “A Boy's Will” in 1913 and “North of Boston” in 1914 is some of the works that put him on the radar. He also wrote prose books, spoken word, and letters. Frost was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 31 times. He acquired his poetic persona of a rural setting from his working on his farm and writing poems although he never published them because the publishing firms showed little interest in them. This forced him to move from England to America.He was married to Elinor Miriam White and had six children. He died in 1963 at 88 years of age (Biography.com). Frost and his poetry are relevant because he is known for his poems that had meaning even in today's' world. For example, the "Road Not Taken" can be used to encourage students to take the right path to ensure they have a brighter future. His relevance can also be felt in that he was a poet with spiritual coating in most of his poems. Themes in the Poems by Frost One of the main themes that were of interestto Robert Frost include the theme of youths. Frost was highly interested in the coverage of themes that revolved around the issues that affected the youth. In the poem “A Boy’s Will”, Frost explores the life of a solitary youth who explores and questions the world around him. This is spotted in the where Frost writes “A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes”. Additionally, the poem “Road Not Taken” addresses the challenges that the youths might face I they do not choose the right path to follow. “I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference (Frost.

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Robert Frost
Art can be manifested in various ways. Some of the common
ways include drawing, dressing and even through poetry. Poetry
is, therefore, a way of depicting art through the use of
figurative language. The poet, therefore, has a role to play to
ensure that they are able to communicate their ideas effectively.
Poets use various styles and forms of writing to distinguish
their work and communicate with the targeted audience. One of
the most commonly re-known poets is Robert Frost. This paper
will examine a quick biography of Robert Frost, themes that
Robert Frost covers and the motifs that Frost has used in most
of his works.
Bibliography
Robert Frost was born on March 26th, 1874 in San Francisco,
California in the United States. Little is known of his past but
when he came into scenes, his work was being published in
England before it was published in America. Most of his work is
about the social and philosophical themes of life using the rural
settings of his articles. He realistically depicted rural life using
his strong command of American colloquial speech. He began
his career as a poet late in high school and worked on it while
in Dartmouth College where he dropped out in less than a year.
He joined Harvard University where he also left after two years.
Frost was a poet and a playwright with “A Boy's Will” in 1913
and “North of Boston” in 1914 is some of the works that put
him on the radar. He also wrote prose books, spoken word, and
letters.
Frost was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 31 times.

2. He acquired his poetic persona of a rural setting from his
working on his farm and writing poems although he never
published them because the publishing firms showed little
interest in them. This forced him to move from England to
America.He was married to Elinor Miriam White and had six
children. He died in 1963 at 88 years of age (Biography.com).
Frost and his poetry are relevant because he is known for his
poems that had meaning even in today's' world. For example,
the "Road Not Taken" can be used to encourage students to take
the right path to ensure they have a brighter future. His
relevance can also be felt in that he was a poet with spiritual
coating in most of his poems.
Themes in the Poems by Frost
One of the main themes that were of interestto Robert Frost
include the theme of youths. Frost was highly interested in the
coverage of themes that revolved around the issues that affected
the youth. In the poem “A Boy’s Will”, Frost explores the life
of a solitary youth who explores and questions the world around
him. This is spotted in the where Frost writes “A mother takes
twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman
makes a fool of him in twenty minutes”. Additionally, the poem
“Road Not Taken” addresses the challenges that the youths
might face I they do not choose the right path to follow. “I took
the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference
(Frost, Road Not Taken, lines 19-20). These examples show that
Frost covered the theme of youths in most of his works.
The other theme predominant in Frosts' poems is the theme of
the loss of innocence. Frost covers this by portraying the
situation as it was after World War I and World War II. He
explains how he witnessed the psychic and physical harming of
the entire generation of young people. However, in “Desert
Places”, he shows the realities of aging and loss to reflect on
the losses he had also personally incurred. “And lonely as it is
that loneliness, will be more lonely ere it will be less (Frost,
Desert Places, lines 1-2). This creates a vivid picture of the
situation after the first and the second world wars. The author

3. has therefore used these poems to portray the themes of loss of
innocence after the first and second world wars.
Motifs in the Poems
The motif that is seen to recur every now and then in Frosts’
work is the motif of manual labor. Frost uses manual labor as a
tool for self-discovery and analysis. For example, “Mending
Wall” is used by Frost to depict the activities that the people
were involved in practically. He also wrote the poem about
cutting hay titled “mowing” which focusses on the motif of
manual labor while the effects of manual labor are articulated in
“Out, Out” when the young boy dies as a result of hard labor.
The theme of manual labor has been repeated in most of the
poems that Robert Frost has written. Maybe it could be due to
the fact that he was a farmer during most times of his life even
when he was teaching. Frost has therefore used the motif of
manual labor as a tool of self-discovery and analysis.
Another motif that is evident in Frost’s work is the poetic
diction that seems to have been used throughout Frost’s works.
Poetic diction can simply be termed as word choice in the works
by the poet. For example, Frost seems to have embraced rhyme
and alliteration to replicate content of the poems. This is
depicted in “Mowing” where he shows the back-and-forth sound
of a scythe as it swings. Frost has therefore embraced poetic
diction because he believed that poetry was supposed to be
recited rather than being read. The author therefore has used
poetic diction to emphasize that poems are a form of oral art.
Finally, the poet has employed the use of symbolism in most of
his poems. Some of the symbols used by Robert Frost includes
trees that are used to mark the boundary between heaven and
earth and also between pasture and forest. The same trees have
also been used to depict the link that the tree has created
between the sky, humanity and the earth. For example "And
climb black branches up a snow-white trunk, toward heaven, till
the tree could bear no more” (Frost, Birches, lines 2-3).This
could be symbolic of his own life experiences since he was a
wanderer after he was excluded from the society. Symbolism is,

4. therefore, a motif that has been widely deployed in the poet’s
works.
Works Cited
“Robert Frost.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 18
Apr. 2019, www.biography.com/writer/robert-frost.
Frost, Robert, and Louis Untermeyer. The road not taken. Holt,
1951.
Frost, Robert. "Desert Places." Anthology of Modern American
Poetry (1979).
Frost, Robert. A boy's will. 1st World Publishing, 2004.
Frost, Robert. Birches. Macmillan, 2002.