Robert Frost: The Most Famous American Poet

Robert Frost

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference. (Poetry Soup)”, wrote one of the most famous American Poets, Robert Frost in his poem The Road Not Taken. Through this poem, he pulled readers into his imagination of differences there would be in life, if only he chose another road. In a sense, Frost stands at the crossroads of 19th-century American poetry and modernism, for in his verse may be found the culmination of many 19th-century tendencies and traditions as well as parallels to the works of his 20th-century contemporaries. (Poetry Foundations) Although he was a poet of traditional verse forms and metrics and remained steadfastly aloof from the poetic movements and fashions of his time, Frost was anything but merely a regional poet. (Poets) Robert Frost’s family and experiences abroad deeply influenced him as a poet. In March 26, 1874, San Francisco, Robert Frost was born into a family with deep literature foundations.With both parents as teachers, young Robert was early on exposed to the world of books and reading, studying such works as those by William Shakespeare and poets Robert Burns and William Wordsworth (The Literature

Readers enjoy reading his poems because of the genuine emotions Frost demonstrated to readers and his unlimited imagination. The Road Not Taken, one of the classic works of Robert Frost, is my favorite. Everyone have at least once wondered “what would happen if only…”, and this poem related to all readers perfectly. Just like what Frost said “ Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. (Quotes HD) ” Although Frost died in 1963, long before the birth of my generation, I can still feel and relate to his poems because words, are