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The Poetry of Robert Frost
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The Poetry of Robert Frost Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874. His family moved to Massachusetts in 1885 after his father died. It wasn't until he moved to England in 1912 that his writing career took off. By 1942 he had won four Pulitzer Prizes for his works. By the time he died in 1963 he had produced enough work to be considered one of America's premier twentieth century poets. "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" are two of Frost's most famous poems. Both are simple and concern the speaker and a natural setting. Symbolism is prominent in both the poems and hides the underlying meanings. Frost's "The Road Not Taken" is written in a free verse style and at first is overly simple. The obvious meaning is the choices we face in life. The speaker describes a walk in the woods when...
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