The document discusses American poet Robert Frost. It provides biographical details about Frost's life and career, including that he was born in 1874 in California, graduated as valedictorian from high school, attended Dartmouth College, and married Elinor White. Frost is renowned for his realistic portrayals of rural life in New England through his poems. He received four Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry collections and was named Poet Laureate of Vermont. Some of his most famous poems that explore themes of nature, love, and the human experience include "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Fire and Ice," and "After Apple-Picking."

5. Poetry is a form of literature that evokes a
concentrated imaginative awareness of
experience or an emotional response.
Nature poetry is a form of writing that focuses
primarily on themes, ideas, emotions,
situations, or images that have to do
with nature.
The extreme fascination and acute love to
the nature makes a great poet of nature.
Robert Frost is a twentieth century poet who
deals realistically with his world through man
and nature. His personality is not only
described as a nature poet, but also he writes
for “humanity”.
In fact Frost admitted ,“I had only three or four
pure nature poems. The rest were human
portraits with a nature setting."

6. Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29,
1963) was an American Poet, born to journalist
William Prescott Frost, Jr., and Isabelle Moodie in
San Francisco, California.
Robert Lee Frost attended Lawrence High School
and graduated in 1892 as a valedictorian poet.
Right after graduation, he attended Dartmouth
College, where he became a member of Theta
Delta Chi Fraternity.
Robert Lee Frost married Elinor White in 1895,
with whom he shared his valedictorian honours.
Frost’s writing skill lies in the fact that he is able to effectively convey the settings from
rural life in New England in the early 20th century, using them to examine complex social and
philosophical themes.
 He is the only poet to receive four PULITZER Prizes for Poetry.
He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his poetic works.
He became one of America's rare "public literary figures, almost an artistic institution." and
known as ”Poet Laureate of Vermont”.

7. Robert Frost added more colours to the world of literature. his ideas
about social outcasts and love for nature are reflected well in his works.
The recurring themes in most of his poems are love, death,
beauty, man and the natural world, and struggle.
Robert Frost used literary devices that turned to visual and sensual, imagery,
metaphors, similies and symbolism to create a unique style.
Continuing to write about New England, he had two books published, A
Boy’s Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914), which established him
as a celebrated literary figure.
In 1924, he won the first of four
PULITZER PRIZES for the book
New Hampshire: Poem with Notes and
Grace Notes He won additional Pulitzers
for Collected poems in 1931
A Further Range in 1937, and
A Witness Tree in 1943
His popular poems include: “After Apple-Picking”, “Mending Wall”, “BIRCHES”, “Out-Out”,
“FIRE AND ICE”, NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY” and “STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING”,
“HOME BURIAL”, and so on.

8. Best Plays and Prose Books include:
“A Way Out: A One-Act play“, “A Masque Of Reason “, “A Masque of
Mercy”,
Famous Quotes
*“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.”(The Road Not Taken,)
*“Some say the earth will end in fire,
Some say in ice.” (Fire and Ice)
Frost has had a significant influence on a diverse range of writers and poets. His works are
widely anthologized and have successfully brought into light the concept of soothing nature
and its role in man’s life.
List of Robert Frost well familiar Books also include :-
The Letters of Robert Frost
The Poetry of Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
Poetry For Young People
The Oxford History of Poland – Luthania
101 Great American Poems
An Annual Of New Poetry

9. BY ROBERT FROST

10. • The author was having a terrible day and was in
a bad mood. He was standing near a hemlock tree
which was poisonous.
• A crow which must have perched upon the snow
laden hemlock tree happened to sprinkle some
snow dust on him.
• The falling of the snow on his head lifted his
mood instantly and his sad and depressive mood
changed into an elated one due to the crow and
the hemlock tree
• Nature has healing and curing power.
• Small events in a person’s life can have a larger
significance.
• One should hope for the best even in the worst
situations.

11. • The poem ‘Dust of Snow’ by Robert Frost is a simple
and short poem, yet with a deeper and larger
meaning. The poet explains how an act as petty or
simple as experiencing snow on one’s body can
brighten one’s day. The two agents of nature, the
hemlock tree and the crow are signifiers of sadness
and gloom.
• The crow, a black, dark creature, has an evil
foreboding and is a symbol of fear, doom and death.
• The poet has also chosen hemlock tree ,associated
with poison and death as hemlock was the poison
used to kill the great philosopher Socrates.
• However, the poet has cleverly used these symbols
or bad omens to signify that inauspicious things can
bring joy and happiness, too.
• Thus the poem teaches us a lesson that we must not take things for granted but should
be open and accept whichever way nature chooses to bless us.

12. • Robert Frost’s poem ‘Fire and Ice’ expresses
the profound idea of two groups who have their
own possible explanation that the world would
end in either of the two ways, by fire or by ice.
• Both fire (DESIRE) as well as ice (HATRED) are
just as competent in bringing the world to a
fateful end.
• The poet believes personally that ‘fiery
desires’ are capable of bringing human beings
on the verge of destruction.
• Then he thinks that if the world were to end
twice, then ‘icy hatred’ would be just as capable
of ruining humans, though slowly but steadily.
• Nothing in the world is eternal.
Everything will be consumed either
by fire of desire or by ice of hatred.
• Unbridled passions and desires
can cause the end of the world.
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• Even hatred born out of cold and icy reasons is
sufficient to cause destruction and end the world

13. Fire and Ice’ is one of the most popular and
symbolic poems of Robert Frost.
• In this poem, Frost refers to two predictions
of how the world would end.
• It discusses the end of the world, as a result
of fire or ice. The poet has likened the
elemental force of fire with the emotion of
desire and of ice with hatred.
• The poem, very artistically, underpins the
philosophy that if we don’t control our
emotions and let them rule us then they would
bring the world to a catastrophic end.
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The speaker’s experience of desire and hatred has taught him that emotions like
desire and lust have power to bring the world to a fiery end. But he also knows that
colder emotions like hatred also have great destructive power of making the world
freeze to its end

14. It is evident that the works of Robert Frost
are unique and has hence drawn attention of a
significant number of people due to their
content.
To many he is a source of inspiration.
Although the writings and poems have not
been without critics, it is clear that they have
attracted a significant readership and most of
them adore his works as they draw comfort in
the meaning they deduce from the work
especially poetry.
 This is because Frost was able to
incorporate almost every aspect that happens
in our day to day lives more especially in the
rural setting.
Despite the comlexity of his poems his implied message is rather simple. Frost
clarified human's eagerness to finding a meaning to life and an essential
background and reason to events, regardless of how small and insignificant they
might be.

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