ROBERT FROST

ROBERT FROST

1. BIOGRAPHY

   • BIRTH
     • SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
     • SON OF WILLIAM PRESCOTT, JR.
       • DIED OF TUBERCULOSIS WHEN ROBERT WAS 11
     • NAMED AFTER ROBERT E. LEE
       • commander of the confederate armies during the Civil War
   • CAREER
     • ATTENDED Lawrence Massachusettes
       • BEGAN WRITING POETRY
     • MARRIED ELINOR WHITE
       • HAD 6 CHILDREN
     • WRITINGS
       • POETIC STYLE
         • SPARCE
         • SHORT
         • SIMPLE
         • EARTHY IMAGERY
       • FIRST BOOK OF POEMS
         • A Boy's Will (1913)
       • SECOND COLLECTION
         • NORTH OF BOSTON (1914
     • FIRST ONE TO READ "The Gift Outright" (1961)
       • JOHN F. KENNEDY
     • WON PULITZER PRIZE

2. "MAKES YOU REMEMBER WHAT YOU DIDNT KNOW, YOU KNEW"

3. 2 POEMS

   • THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
     • its about not going with the flow
     • 1ST STANZA
       • 2 ROADS IN THE WOODS
       • HE COULD NOT DECIDE WHICH TO TAKE
       • HE TRIED TO LOOK AS FAR AS HE COULD
     • 2ND STANZA
       • THE OTHER ONE LOOKED LIKE THE BETTER CHOICE
       • IT WAS GRASSY AND HAD NO WEAR
     • 3RD STANZA
       • HE SEEMED TO BE THE FIRST ONE TO WALK ON THE PATH
       • HE DOUBTED IF HE SHOULD GO BACK
     • 4TH STANZA
       • HE'S HAPPY HE TOOK THE ROAD NO ONE HAD TAKEN
   • STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING
     • 1ST STANZA
       • HE KNOWS WHO OWNS THE WOODS
       • THE OWNER'S HOUSE IS IN THE VILLAGE AND WILL NOT SEE HIM IN THE WOODS
     • 2ND STANZA
       • IT WAS THE DARKEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR
       • HIS HORSE DOESNT WANT TO BE HERE
     • 3RD STANZA
       • THE HORSE THINKS THEY'RE IN THE WRONG WAY
       • THERE'S NO OTHER NOISE EXCEPT THE WIND
     • 4TH STANZA
       • WOODS ARE LOVELY DARK AND DEEP
       • BUT HE HAS PROMISES TO KEEP