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HE WAS A COLLEGE DROPOUT—TWICE OVER.
“They could not make a student of me here (Harvard) , but they gave it their best,” -Frost

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-Won the Pulitzer Prizes after World War One and only became known after the war

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-Won the Pulitzer Prizes after World War One and only became known after the war

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-his writing was like a distraction from the troubles he faced in his real life eg. his parents death, his child's passing etc.

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The first poem that Robert Frost sold was titled "My Butterfly. An Elegy." He earned $15, which would be worth more than $400 today.

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> deals with rural depictions of mature
>context: farm lifestyle in Massachusetts
> relates to isolation of the individual
> self knowledge through natural landscape
>alienation from his environment
> introspection
> ww1 influences > shaped views of youth> personal transition evoked through loss > home burial

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- his poetry reflects an interest in how landscape can evoke contemplation and how reflection leads to new insights.

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- his poetry reflects an interest in how landscape can evoke contemplation and how reflection leads to new insights.

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- Self discovery through experiences in rural settings.

-  Moved to England and bought a farm in New Hampshire (1915)
-His experience growing up in New England exposed him to a particular way of life that seemed less complicated and yet more meaningful than the life of a city dweller.

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Family orientated

His poetry explores how landscape can evoke contemplation and reflection about existence, loneliness, isolation, love, change, fear etc.

New England country Values

Recurring landscape settings

19th century scepticism (faith vs science)

“I’m not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.”

American ideals (hard work, duty, rather than indulging in personal desires)

Sadness and loneliness of the deaths of family members

Through actively engaging with nature, one is able to gain self-knowledge and deeper understanding of the human condition and increased insight into the metaphysical world.

The literary cannon

Themes: Rationality vs Imagination, Duty & Hard work,  Everyday Life, Isolation, Communication, Tradition vs Cs Change The Sublime

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on" - Robert Frost

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- grew up in America, moved to England
- "SOUND OF SENSE"
- Spent a lot of time on farms and near pastures, this influenced his poetry and emerged as a motif
- Existential questions
- Idea that the Self is reflected in nature and that everything is interconnected
-   SOLITUDE
-  Nature provoking thought and reflection
- He was a teacher
- manual labour you connect to earth/nature

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•	American Poet from New England•	Focused on tones of voice in poetry and the passionate preference in ethics•	Rural New England landscape was a main source of inspiration for his poems o	Contemplated life, death, faith and science •	Explores the human condition and the further understanding of human experience

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•	American Poet from New England•	Focused on tones of voice in poetry and the passionate preference in ethics•	Rural New England landscape was a main source of inspiration for his poems o	Contemplated life, death, faith and science •	Explores the human condition and the further understanding of human experience

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Lived a life of grief and sufferings:
-Wife Elinor died at 38 from heart failure, a year after being diagnosed with breast cancer
-Had 6 children, but one died of cholera at only 8 years old, one died just after birth, one died at 29, and another at 38. Only two of their children outlived Robert. :(

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Settings of rural life in New England

The 'sound of sense' - saw poetry as an oral art form-his early works are concerned with establishing this

His themes about introspection, mortality, isolation, the need for human connection, importance of communication, discovery and revelations reached through hard, physical work, how nature stays indifferent to human world

Children's death - influenced his poems

The changing of the theme of youth - first he thought youth as idyllic and free, but after WW1 and WW2 he wrote about the loss of innocence and realities of ageing.

Nature symbolism: Trees represent the boundaries on Earth and heaven - when his personas are wandering around they are in limbo, allowing them to achieve revelations.