Sometimes in life people question the true meaning of life and the world itself. Reading Robert Frost’s poetry forms many different opinions and thoughts about the world. The poetry of Robert Frost often features sadness; a poet with an appreciation for the natural scene, yet mindful of the harsh realities of life. His poetry comes from an outlook on ordinary events and places, but has deep meaning and misery. What makes the poetry of Robert Frost appealing is the way he raises questions that are still relevant to a modern day reader. In addition, Robert Frost is also memorable because he uses straight forward language and explores relevant themes which still hold significance in today’s modern society. He cannot be described simply just as …show more content…
Robert Frost married his wife Elinor Miriam White in December 19th, 1895. In 1912, Robert Frost and his wife Elinor decided to sell their farm in New Hampshire and move to England, where they hoped there would be more publishers willing to take a chance on new poets. Robert Frost lived somewhat of a sad life. He was born to an alcoholic father and a depressed mother, he was tormented all his years by the effects of mental illness on himself and on those he loved. Robert Frost had to commit his sister Jeanie to a mental hospital in 1920, and she died there in 1929 at the age of fifty three. His son Carol committed suicide in 1940, at the age of thirty eight. His daughter Irma was committed to a mental hospital in 1947. Other tragedies rocked his family as well, his daughter Marjorie died in childbirth in 1934, when she was twenty nine years old, and wife Elinor died of heart failure in 1938, a few months after their forty second wedding anniversary. On the optimistic side of Roberts Frost life, by 1940’s he was undisputedly the master of American poetry. In 1943, he won his fourth and final Pulitzer Prize for the collection, “A Witness Tree”. Awards, honorary degrees, and teaching appointments at the country’s finest universities were headed upon him. However, Robert Frost died at the age of eighty eight on January 1963, from complications of prostate