Robert Frost Influences

Robert Frost is extremely important to Modern American literature. Frost evoked a lot of deep discussions in classrooms, friend groups, teachers and kids alike. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. He is regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life. He frequently used settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century. He used them to examine social and philosophical themes. He is credited as a major influence upon the development of the school and its writing programs. One of the most popular and respected American poets of the twentieth century, Frost was honored many times during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. In 1924, he won the first of four
Pulitzer Prizes for the book New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes. He would win additional Pulitzers for Collected Poems in 1931, A Further Range in 1937, and A Witness Tree in 1943. Frost is well known for his excellent use of the metrical form of poetry. More often than not, he used a quatrain with simple rhymes such as abab and abcb. He achieved limitless possibilities in this style. he never liked free verse all that much, claiming it to be too loose, and less than ideal. My favorite poem by him is “Fire and Ice” which is also one of my favorite poems of all time. I love how he can make me think so retrospectively about the world. His poems truly speak to the everyday person and their everyday lives, in a way very few can mimic.