Frosty Woods of Loneliness

Frosty Woods of Loneliness
There is no doubt that Robert Frost is one of the greatest American Modern poets of all time. Although he was known for his association with rural life, Frost grew up in the city of San Francisco, California. Earlier in his life, death took his father’s life away, an incident which has a major effect on Frost’s life and led the family to move to another city. Under the patronage of his grandfather, Frost started a new chapter of his life in Massachusetts. He published his first poem My Butterfly at the New York Independent in 1894.
Frost's grandfather purchased a farm for Robert in New Hampshire. This farm was the most influential reason of his rustic style. He worked at the farm for nine years while writing early in the mornings to produce many of the poems that would later become famous. He Identified himself with the land he worked on. Traveling oversees to the land of his ancestors, Frost published his first two volumes in London in 1913 (A Boy's Will) and in 1914 (North of Boston). His obsession with the American countryside brought him back home to New England only to buy a farm again in New Hampshire where he wrote his masterpiece Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening in 1922. Although he never graduated from college, his outstanding talent granted for him 4 Pulitzer Prizes and over 40 honorary degrees, including ones from Princeton, Oxford and Cambridge universities. His long journey came to an end at 1963 at the age of 88 years.
Family losses had a huge impact on his desperate style of poetry. Nevertheless, he sometimes opened the door for a little range of hope. Frost embraced loneliness in his poetry by expressing the isolation of the rustic way of life. Although he used simple and clear vocabularies, his poems were complex, sophisticated and deep in meaning.   Frost’s theory of poetic composition ties him to both the 19th and the 20th centuries. He said that a poem is “never a put-up job.... It begins as a lump in the throat,...