Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco, March 26, 1874 and died in Boston, January 29, 1963. He one of America's leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Although his verse forms are traditional, he was a pioneer in the interplay of rhythm and meter and in the poetic use of the vocabulary and inflections of everyday speech. His poetry is thus both traditional and experimental.

After Frost’s father died in 1885, the family left California and settled in Massachusetts. From 1897 to 1899 he attended Harvard College as a special student, but left without a degree. Over the next ten years he wrote (but rarely published) poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire (purchased for him by his grandfather), and supplemented his income by teaching.

In 1912 he sold the farm and used the proceeds to take his family to England, where he could devote himself entirely to writing. His efforts to establish himself and his work were almost immediately successful. A Boy's Will was accepted by a London publisher and brought out in 1913, followed a year later by North of Boston. In 1924 he receive

Someone who has not read much of Frost’s work might think that there is no deep meaning, just that people should stop once in a while and spend time with nature, away from the hustle and bustle of cities, but this, although it is one of the minor points Frost is trying to get across to the reader, is not the main one. This could be considered a flaw, or just a marketing tool to get people to read his other poems.

The Road not Taken and many other poems of Robert Frost appeal to me. This one however would have to be the one that appeals to me the most. When I first read this poem, I liked it because of its free verse style (which I like) and its apparent simplicity, but, after much study, its true meaning became apparent. The obvious basic meaning is that the poem is about a person’s choices in life. The narrator describes coming to a problem with the fork in the road. He must go down one but feels he will not be able to take back his decision. He looks to see the pros and cons of each choice, and then takes the one that he says the least had traveled. He leaves the outcome up to the reader. This leaves the reader the choice of deciding whether it is better to conform with society or rebel like Frost did and take up a less stable trade.

d a Pulitzer Prize in poetry for New Hampshire (1923). He received it again for Collected Poems (1930), A Further Range (1936), and A Witness Tree (1942). Over the years he received an unprecedented number and range of literary, academic, and public honors.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is another influential poem. Frost uses good diction in giving it a very smooth transition from line to line due to its assonance and end rhyme. Although this poem has no direct metaphors or similes, the poem’s format and very vivid detail keeps the reader interested. There are also very few technical features in the poem, the only special addition, (other than the alliteration "dark and deep") like with most of his other poems is the heavy use of symb

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