Robert Frost: Poet for Term III

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Robert Frost is considered one of the great American poets of the 20th century. His poetry is know for it's traditional form and it's more modern use of everyday subject matter. Rural, New England life was the most common theme in his poetry. We read poems by Frost that focused on nature throughout the four seasons. Robert Frost won the Pulitzer Prize four times and read his poem, "The Gift Outright" at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.

And, two of our favorite Robert Frost Poems....

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here 

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake 

The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound's the sweep 

Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely,  dark and deep

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep, 

And miles to go before I sleep.

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim

Because it was grassy and wanted wear,

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh! I marked the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads onto way

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.