twentieth century” (Literature Online 1). His use of natural images and

traditional poetic technique give him a fashion that is desirable to the

fictitious ears. Throughout his literary career, Frost had been both celebrated

and condemned for his works as a poet. Nevertheless, he has, even after his

death, remained as “one of the greatest, if not the very greatest, of modern

American poets” (Literature Online 1).

Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California. He lived there until age

eleven, which is when he moved to New England, and later, with his mother, he

settled in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He attended Dartmouth College for one

semester, as well as Harvard for two years. Frost spent many of his years

farming, which is perhaps where he acquired his “Popular image as a farmer-poet”

(Literature Online 1). Not only did Frost farm, he also taught at the Pinkerton

Academy and the New Hampshire State Normal School. Frost began publishing poems

in 1894, but failed to gain recognition. He then moved back to New England with

his family, where his first two volumes of poetry, A Boy’s Will and North of

swords to plowshares, how, indeed, two roads can look about the same, be

for the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1950, by unanimous resolution, Frost won

because most of them have closure; the answers are not always left in the air,

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