Robert Frost was an American poet born in 1874 in San Francisco. He had a difficult early life that included the death of his father and moving frequently with his family. He published his first poems in the 1890s and studied at Harvard but did not graduate. Frost married his wife Elinor in 1895 and they had six children together, though they experienced several family tragedies. He worked as a farmer and teacher for many years before moving to England in 1912 where his poetry found great success and acclaim. Frost published several renowned collections of poems and won numerous honors including four Pulitzer Prizes. He taught for many years and participated in presidential inaugurations until his death in 1963 when he was regarded as the unofficial poet of the United

1. Robert Frost
(1874-1963)
Course: American
Literature
Professor: Yony Cárdenas
Cornelio.
Student: Gabriela Paredes
Baquerizo.

2. EARLY LIFE
• Robert Frost was born in
1874 San Francisco, California
on March 26.
• His father, a journalist and
1875 local politician, died when
Frost was eleven years old.
• His Scottish mother resumed
her career as a schoolteacher
1875- to support her family.
• The family lived in Lawrence,
1892 Massachusetts, with Frost's
paternal grandfather.
• Frost graduated from a high
1892 school and attended
Dartmouth College for a few
months.

3. ADULT LIFE
• The New York Independent
published Frost's poem
1894 "My Butterfly" and he had
five poems privately
printed.
1894 - • Frost worked as a
teacher and continued
1897 to write and publish his
poems in magazines.
1897 - • Frost studied at Harvard,
but left without receiving
1899 a degree.

4. MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
• He married a former
1895 schoolmate, Elinor White;
they had six children
1896 • Their first child named
Elliot, was born on September
- 29, 1896. Elliott's death, from
cholera, in July of 1900, was
the first of many family
1900 tragedies that Frost would
endure.

5. DARK YEARS
• Frost's mother died
1900 of cancer.
• The following year
saw the death of his
1901 grandfather, William
Prescott Frost
• Elinor and Robert had five
1899- more children--another
son, Carol, and four
daughters, the last of
1907 whom lived for only three
days.

6. RISKY MOVES
• His grandfather let him the use of his
farm in Derry, New Hampshire, for a
1901 period of ten years, after which Robert
would become its owner.
• The only period of Frost's life in
1901- which he worked seriously at
farming, and in the last five of
1911 them he also found it financially
necessary to teach school.

7. RISKY MOVES
• He sold the farm
when it became
1911 his.
• He moved his family
to England in August,
1912 hoping to find there
the literary success
that had eluded him in
his own country.

8. The Frost farm, where the family lived from 1900-1911

9. Success Abroad
 In England he published his
first collection of poems, A
Boy's Will(1913) followed by
North of Boston (1914), which
gained international
reputation.
 Frost met numerous literary
figures, including Ezra Pound,
Hilda Doolittle, and William
Butler Yeats (who tells Pound
that A Boy's Will is "the best
poetry written in America for a
long time").

10. Frost's manuscript of
a poem from A Boy's
Will (1915)
Frost in Franconia, N.H., 1915

11. A BOY’S WILL
 The collection contains
some of Frost's best-known
poems:
 "The Death of the Hired
Man,"
 “Fire and Ice”
 “Stopping by Woods on an
Snowy Evening“
 “Desert Places”
 “Nothing Gold Can Stay”

12. The New American Genius
 After returning to the US in 1915
with his family, Frost bought a
farm near Franconia, New
Hampshire.
 1916: Frost began teaching at
Amhert College.

13. The New American Genius
 1924 - Awarded Pulitzer Prize for New
Hampshire in May.
 Receives Honorary Litt.D. degrees from
Middlebury College and Yale University.
 Gives notice to Amherst of his acceptance
of lifetime appointment at University of
Michigan as Fellow in Letters.
 1931 – Awarded his second Pulitzer Prize
for Collected Poems.
 1937 – Awarded his third Pulitzer Prize for
Further Range.
 1943 – Awarded his fourth Pulitzer Prize
for A Witness Tree.

14. Tragedy and Depression
 In 1934 his beloved daughter Marjorie
died after the birth of her first child.
 In March 1938, after a long and often
difficult marriage, Elinor herself died of
heart attack.
 In October 1940, Frost's son Carol,
feeling himself a failure despite Frost's
strenuous efforts to convince him
otherwise, committed suicide.

15. He participated in the
inauguration of President
John Kennedy in 1961 by
reciting two of his poems,
'Dedication' and 'The Gift
Outright.„

16. HIS LATER YEARS
 Frost suffered from
depression and
continual self-doubt.
 At the time of his death
on January 29, 1963,
Frost was regarded as a
kind of unofficial poet
laureate of the United
States.

17. Frost’s Writing Style
Writing free
verse is like
playing tennis
with the net
down.

18. Frost’s Style
 He wrote in a plain style
 He used traditional forms and
structures while exploring
modern themes of alienation
and isolation
 He wrote many pastoral poems
 Celebrates the ideals of rural life
 He combined traditional form
and colloquialisms with modern
sense of isolation and loss

19. Aspects of Frost's poetry:
 It uses contraries and
contradictions
 It uses common,
everyday speech
 Poems are set in
nature
 Deep meanings exist
beneath a simple
exterior

20. Motifs in Frost's Poetry:
 The cycle of the
seasons
 The alternation of
night and day
 Natural
phenomenon
 Rural images

21. The End of The World!!!
(according to Mr. Robert Frost)
“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 favour fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
To perish : to die, especially in a
sudden violent way
To suffice: to be enough for sb/sth.

22. “THE ROAD NOT TAKEN”
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 marked the first for another day! To diverge : to separate and go in
Yet knowing how way leads on to way different directions
I doubted if I should ever come back. Grassy: covered with grass
Trodden: to put your foot down
I shall be telling this with a sigh while you are stepping or walking.
Somewhere ages and ages hence: Sigh: to take and then let out a
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, long deep breath that can be heard.
I took the one less traveled by, Hence: for this reason.
And that has made all the difference.

23. -How difficult it is to make a choice.
-The possibility of regrets.
-The future expeculation.