Robert Frost Research Paper

“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity,” (Robert Frost) Frost chose to use poetry to express his frustration with not only society but his situation in life. Frost’s poetry was written usually related to the struggles faced in his time period, including but not limited to social, political and historical issues. The cynical mind’s work may have been shaped by; the death of numerous family members, his friend in the war, and an impoverished beginning. Through his experiences Frost learned to use “sentence tones” revolutionizing poetry (Frost, Carol). Unlike his predecessors, who used sweet and melodious tones, Frost uses inquisitive, boastful, and irritable tones forever changing poetry. Throughout
and Isabelle Moodie. His father tragically passed when he was eleven, and he and his family moved to Lawrence Texas shortly afterwards. It was in Lawrence where he became interested in poetry. While he never earned a formal college degree, he enrolled in Dartmouth College, as well as Harvard University in 1892. He worked a string of jobs before he published his first poem “My Butterfly.” In addition, Frost married Elinor Miriam White; they had six children before Elinor’s death in 1938 (Britannica). He and his wife Elinor focused on teaching their own children the power of imagination in order to shape them into intellectual, and innovative adults. The children grew as intellectuals through their awareness of their father’s struggle, despite his obvious efforts to advance his poetry, and earn income with it. These financial experiences created family trials, but gave him poetic inspiration. (Francis, Lesley Lee). The Frosts moved to England for some time where he made more connections, allowed his writing’s to finally begin to become discovered. Today Frost is known for having written many well known and inspiring poems and is considered one of the great American