" Robert Frost: The American Poet
"Robert Frost: The American Poet"
Robert Frost is still one of the best-loved American Poets ever. His first professional poem "My Butterfly" was published on November 8, 1894 in the New York newspaper "The Independent." Frost moved to England in 1912 and it was abroad that he met and was influenced by such contemporary British poets such as Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, and Robert Graves. While in England, Frost also established a friendship with poet Ezra Pound, who helped to promote and published his work. By the time Frost returned to the United States in 1915, he had published two full-length collections, "A Boy's Will" and "North of Boston." By then, his reputation as a poet was established. In the 1920's, he was the most celebrated poet in America. With each new book including, "New Hampshire" (1923), "A Further Range" (1936), "Steeple Bush" (1947), and "In the Clearing" (1962), Robert Frost's fame and honors, including four Pulitzer Prizes in 1924, 1931, 1937 and 1943, increased (Harris). Robert Frost was a poet of traditional verse forms and metrics that remained steadfastly from the poetic movements and fashions of is time. Frost is anything but a merely regional or minor poet. He is quintessentially modern poet in his adherence to language as it is actually spoken in the psychological
complexity of his portraits, in which, the degree to which his work is infused with layers of ambiguity and irony.
All of his poems contain symbolism and hidden meanings that make his poetry even more memorable. Robert Frost's poetry is traditional and experimental, regional and universal. His importance as a poet derives from the power and memorability of particular poems. "The Death of the Hired Man" combines lyric and dramatic poetry in blank verse. "After Apple-Picking" is a free verse dream poem with philosophical undertones. "Mending Wall" demonstrates Frost's simultaneous commend of lyrical verse, dramatic...
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