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How Did Robert Frost Feud Of The Fleetingness Of Life?

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Daily American Lifestyles: An Analysis of Frost Feud of the Fleetingness of Life Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco California. Frost was the son of the late William Prescott Frost and Isabella Moodie Frost. William was raised in New Hampshire with his father colonists Nicholas Frost. William became a teacher as well as an editor for the San Francisco Evening Bulletin. William had a very sharp connection with Isabella leading to their marriage on March 18, 1875.While William was pursuing his writing career, Isabella was a housewife: it was very common to find housewives back in the 1700s. Isabella was of Scottish decent and had very little education. While Isabella and William had dreams of their son becoming a writer, …show more content…

Isabella had hard decisions to make after the death of her husband. The Frost family was left with only eight dollars. Isabella did what she felt was right, which was pack up her children and move to Lawrence, Massachusetts. Three years after moving to Lawrence, Isabella was also diagnosed with cancer. Isabella took the treatment to try and kill the cancer, but the doctors were not successful. Isabella died on November 2, 1900. After the death of both of his parents, Frost and his sister, Jeanie, went to live with their grandparents in Massachusetts where they would attend Lawrence High School. Having a successful high school career, Frost met his future wife Ellinor White, his co-Valedictorian. Graduating high school in 1892, Frost attended Dartmouth University for many months. Returning home, Frost had a few unfulfilling jobs. Frost then published his first poem "My butterfly: an Elegy". Taking a trip to Virginia and coming back, Frost married Ellinor and decided to attend Harvard University before dropping out because of an illness (Prichard). Frost's poems epitomize the trials and tribulations people endure …show more content…

In the poem, Frost uses imagery to illustrate the environment women and men originated from. The poem starts with a man and a women coming from two different directions. As the two approach each other, the woman begins to play with the sand on the ground as a sign of her being nervous. A study has shown that the first thought about an opposing spouse will not change. In the article "First Date," it explains how meeting someone in the street can be a very tense situation considering everybody is watching you. Usually, the male is making the move on the woman (Jefferson). As the man begins to walk down the steep hill, which is used to show that he has just overcome a big obstacle in his life, he begins to prepare himself to talk the beautiful young lady. Frost says, "As I went down the hill along the wall"(148). The wall is used to separate the good and bad decisions in the obstacle the man has just overcome. The wall shows us that the man made the right decisions and for that, he is walking along the positive side of the wall. As Frost uses the hill to show that the women is going through something in life that the man will go through in the future. He explains that the conversation was short but effective at the same time. The man and woman meet in the poem to express what they have been through while trying to overcome their obstacles. The

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