“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost
born:in San Francisco, California, The United States
March 26, 1874
gender : male
genre :Poetry
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Flinty, moody, plainspoken and
deep, Robert Frost was one of America's most popular 20th-century poets.
Frost was farming in Derry, New Hampshire when, at the age of 38, he
sold the farm, uprooted his family and moved to England, where he
devoted himself to his poetry. His first two books of verse, A Boy's
Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914), were immediate successes. In
1915 he returned to the United States and continued to write while
living in New Hampshire and then Vermont. His pastoral images of apple
trees and stone fences -- along with his solitary, man-of-few-words
poetic voice -- helped define the modern image of rural New England.
Frost's poems include "Mending Wall" ("Good fences make good
neighbors"), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" ("Whose woods these
are I think I know"), and perhaps his most famous work, "The Road Not
Taken" ("Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- / I took the one less
traveled by"). Frost was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry four
times: in 1924, 1931, 1937 and 1943. He also served as "Consultant in
Poetry to the Library of Congress" from 1958-59; that position was
renamed as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (or simply Poet Laureate)
in 1986.
Frost recited his poem "The Gift Outright" at the 1961
inauguration of John F. Kennedy... Frost attended both Dartmouth College
and Harvard, but did not graduate from either school... Frost preferred
traditional rhyme and meter in poetry; his famous dismissal of free
verse was, "I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down."
From : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost
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