Robert Frost
Robert Frost was an American poet (1874–1963) whose work centered on rural New England life and landscape.
Poems like "The Road Not Taken," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," and "Mending Wall" made him perhaps the most widely read serious poet of the twentieth century.
His accessible style and quotable lines often mask darker undercurrents: isolation, mortality, the limits of knowledge.
He won four Pulitzer Prizes and read at John F.
Kennedy's inauguration. (Lowercase frost is ice crystals formed on cold surfaces.)
Forested area
- snowFrozen crystalline precipitation
- orchardFruit tree plantation
- pastureGrazing ground for livestock
- birchesPale-barked deciduous trees
wildflowers · autumn · spring · brook · meadow · harvest · apple trees · frozen lake
Northeastern state, small population
- New HampshireNortheastern state, smallest land
- MassachusettsNortheastern colonial state
- DerryUlster city, contested name
- AmherstMassachusetts college town
farmhouse · stone walls · maple · birch · covered bridge · country roads · village · town meeting
Metered poetic passage
- stanzaPoem's line grouping
- rhymeMatching terminal sounds
- meterDevice that measures usage
- sonnetFourteen-line metered poem
lyric · ballad · couplet · quatrain · iambic · blank verse · dramatic monologue · free verse
Available options to pick
- roadsPaved paths for vehicles
- journeysExtended trips taken
- solitudeState of being alone
- reflectionReturned light or thought
mortality · nature · boundaries · loss · regret · wisdom · ambiguity · isolation
Major journalism award
- laureateCelebrated achievement recipient
- American poetU.S. verse composer
- DartmouthIvy League in Hanover
- HarvardPrestigious Cambridge university
teaching · lectures · national poet · twentieth century · modernism · traditionalist · literary · honors
Dwelling on agricultural land
- pastoralOf countryside or clergy care
- bucolicIdyllically rural
- homesteadFamily farm and dwelling
- plowTool for turning soil
haystack · barnyard · fencepost · hired hand · farmer · country life · simplicity · isolation
woods
Forested area
birches · wildflowers · autumn · spring · brook · meadow · harvest · apple trees · frozen lake · evening
Vermont
Northeastern state, small population
- New HampshireNortheastern state, smallest land
- MassachusettsNortheastern colonial state
- DerryUlster city, contested name
Amherst · farmhouse · stone walls · maple · birch · covered bridge · country roads · village · town meeting · Yankee
verse
Metered poetic passage
sonnet · lyric · ballad · couplet · quatrain · iambic · blank verse · dramatic monologue · free verse · imagery
choices
Available options to pick
reflection · mortality · nature · boundaries · loss · regret · wisdom · ambiguity · isolation · perseverance
Pulitzer
Major journalism award
- laureateCelebrated achievement recipient
- American poetU.S. verse composer
- DartmouthIvy League in Hanover
Harvard · teaching · lectures · national poet · twentieth century · modernism · traditionalist · literary · honors · recognition
farmhouse
Dwelling on agricultural land
plow · haystack · barnyard · fencepost · hired hand · farmer · country life · simplicity · isolation · labor
- poetspoet, Homer, Dante, Milton, Emily Dickinson
- American LiteratureThe Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Moby Dick
- American PoetryWalt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Langston Hughes, Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Poets LaureateAlfred Tennyson, Tennyson, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth, Ted Hughes
- Vermont Writers
- DartmouthHanover, Greek life, fraternities, sororities, Daniel Webster
Robert FrostT.S. Eliot
Ezra Pound · Gertrude Stein · The Waste Land · experimental poetry
Robert FrostAllen Ginsberg
Carl Sandburg · Charles Bukowski · Langston Hughes · Sylvia Plath · Dylan Thomas