7-1 Robert Frost and his poetry

Robert Frost was born in 1874.  Frost wrote poetry as a teenager and graduated high school as valedictorian and class poet. Frost attempted college a couple of times but had a strong dislike for academic convention.  He made a living teaching and farming.  Frost continued to write his poetry and get many of them published.  He had a deep concern with nature and had little faith in religious dogma.  He wrote many wonderful poems.  Who knew all of those great works could come from a man who was just a farmer.

Frost has many well known poems ,but there are a few that stand out in my mind.  His poem "Home Burial" was a very intriguing and sad poem.  A husband and wife have lost their child.  They have since become distance and blame each other for there loss.  She does not understand him and he does not understand her.  The wife wants him to talk about their child more, but he deals with death differently than she does.  They are both greiving and the wife is shutting down.  Her husband wants to help and wants them to have a relationship.  The man uses threats to convey his emotions to his wife.  Over time it gets worse and worse.  She becomes so emotionally distant she can not take it and she leaves.  The husband is left alone is his house, without his wife and child.  His own home burial.

Another poem I really enjoyed was "Fire and Ice."  Frost uses the comparison of fire and ice to describe the end of the world.  Fire is our desires and our lust.  The thing that gives us our passion.  Ice is the hatred and bitterness humanity holds on to.  Bringing our passions, hatred, and sins will be the end of the world.

The third poem I found a lot of meaning in was "The Road not Taken."  There are many people who have different opinions about this poem.  On the surface it seems so easy.  The narrator is confused about which path to take.  He does not know what the outcome of either will be.  In the end he decides to take the path less traveled.  Who knows really which path is less traveled.  It can stand for a metaphor about life.  The famous saying of taking the road less traveled is something that I have heard my entire life.  Many times taking the road less traveled is more difficult, but in the end it is the most rewarding.