“The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.”-Robert Frost. Frost is a four-time Pulitzer Prize winner in the field of poetry. In 1923 he received his first Pulitzer Prize for his poetry collection New Hampshire. He would then subsequently win 3 other Pulitzer Prizes for his book Collected Poems in 1931; his poetry collection A Further Range in 1937; and his last in 1943 for A Witness Tree . Robert Frost was an American poet that depicted realistic New England life through his poetry, choice of words, and situations that a common man would be familiar with. Even though he is one of the world’s most prominent poets, it was not until he was mid-aged that he became famous. His poems gave out …show more content…
Robert Frost worked as a farmer from 1900-1911 but his agricultural work proved to be unsuccessful. While he worked, he also observed nature’s beauty which had an impact on his life. When he was not working he began to write poems. There was a broad range of the types of poems he wrote; he wrote some poems that had a good meaning but there were also poems that had dark hidden messages since he suffered from depression and anxiety. Despite the all the various kinds of poems he wrote, majority of them were related to nature and everyday emotions and events. Nature proved to be incorporated into a good amount of Frost’s writing. The 30-acre farm he lived on provided Frost with pastures, woodlands, orchards, and springs to harvest ideas and a great influence from; which he did. He also gained poetic ideas from his neighbors. For instance, his neighbor Napoleon Guay insisted on building a stone wall every spring to act as the boundary line between the two properties (Shmoop Editorial Team). Napoleon and the wall were then incorporated into one of Frost’s poems called “Mending Wall”. He also wrote a poem about World War 1 because his friend was fighting in it. The poem was “The Road Not Taken”. It is said that in the poem Frost is talking about the choice his friend made and how it could have meant life or death for him in the war. Even though his work as a farmer never prevailed, his poetry did succeed and he eventually found a publisher. The period of time that Frost spent on Derry Farm proved to be vital because he ended up becoming a well-known poet and surpassed his expectations. To this day Frost’s work is still taught from grade school to graduate school. He represents the crossroad between