Robert Frost
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Robert Frost was born in 1874. Frost wrote poetry as a teen and graduated from high school as valedictorian. Frost tried college several times but he didn’t like conventional academics. Frost made his living by farming and teaching. Frost really liked nature but wasn’t into religious dogma. Frost wrote many popular poems’ that to this day is still used. Frost loved farming and nature that’s where a lot of his poems came from.
Frost’s poem “Fire and Ice” is one that I really like how he uses fire and ice to represent the end of the world. Fire is a desire and lust which is a transgression. Ice is hate that humanity embraces. Through the hate and desires of the world it will end, which could be looked at as a sin. These acts of nature versus the acts of humans will eventually take over the world.
The other poem I like is “Home Burial” which is very good but very sad. A couple loses their child. Neither one of them understands the other and their feelings. They blame each other for the loss of the child. The wife wants him to talk about the loss, but he deals with death like all people very different. Her husband uses threats to communicate his emotions to his wife. Over time it get worse and she decides to leave after she has had enough. He is still making threats after she goes to come bring her back home no matter what force it requires. Here he is left at home alone which will be his own home burial.
The other poem I liked is “The Road not Taken” I have ask several people what they think the meaning of this poem is and every time I get a different answer. I happen to think that it means the path isn’t as easy and very confusing with the outcome undetermined. In the end the road taken is the path less traveled but who knows which path is less traveled. This saying has been around for ever. Sometimes the road less traveled is the toughest road to follow. So how do we know which road to take? I guess it’s like life it’s a choice we will have to make.
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