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Robert Frost (1874 - 1963). “ All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech. ”. Chronology. 1874 — Robert Lee Frost was born to Isabelle Moodie Frost and William Prescott Frost, Jr., on March 26 in San Francisco, California.
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“All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech.”
1874— Robert Lee Frost was born to Isabelle Moodie Frost and William Prescott Frost, Jr., on March 26 in San Francisco, California. • 1885— Frost's father, William Prescott Frost, Jr., died. • 1892— Frost graduated from Lawrence High School as co-valedictorian with Elinor White. He entered Dartmouth College but withdraws before the semester ends.
1893— He returned to Massachusetts where he taught eighth-grade in Methuen. • 1894— The Independent, a magazine in New York City, published “My Butterfly: An Elegy” in November. • 1895— Frost took a job as a newspaper reporter for a short period. His mother hired him to teach at the school she operated. He married Elinor Miriam White.
1897— Frost enterd Harvard College as a special student, remaining for two years. • 1901— William Prescott Frost died leaving his grandson Robert the Derry farm and a generous annuity. • 1912— The Frost family moved to Buckinghamshire, England. Robert continued to write poetry and farm.
1913— David Nutt and Company published Frost's first book of poems, A Boy's Will. • 1914— Frost's second book, North of Boston, was published by David Nutt. • 1915— Frost relocated his family to Franconia, New Hampshire. American editions of his first two poetry books were published by Henry Holt and Company.
1916— Invited to Phi Beta Kappa Day at Harvard. • 1924— Frost received Pulitzer Prize for New Hampshire. • 1931— The Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Collected Poems and also received the Russell Loines Poetry Prize.
1936— Frost became Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard. • 1937— The Pulitzer Prize was awarded to A Further Range. • 1938— Elinor Frost died in Florida. • 1940— Frost's son Carol committed suicide.
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.
1943— Frost was awarded his fourth Pulitzer for A Witness Tree. • 1950— United States Senate adopted resolution honoring Frost on the occasion of his seventy-fifth (actually 76th) birthday.
1957— He traveled to England and was awarded an honorary Litt. D. by Oxford and Cambridge Universities and National University of Ireland.
1959— Frost was honored by a Senate resolution on his eighty-fifth birthday. • 1961— John F. Kennedy invited Frost to read at the inauguration. He recited “The Gift Outright” by heart.
~ The Gift Outright ~ The land was ours before we were the land's.She was our land more than a hundred yearsBefore we were her people. She was oursIn Massachusetts, in Virginia. But we were England's, still colonials,Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
Something we were withholding made us weak.Until we found out that it was ourselvesWe were withholding from our land of living,And forthwith found salvation in surrender. Such as we were we gave ourselves outright(The deed of gift was many deeds of war)To the land vaguely realizing westward,But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced,Such as she was, such as she would become.
1963— Robert Lee Frost died on January 29 in Boston. He was buried with Elinor and other family members in the Old Bennington Cemetery in Bennington, Vermont.
Away Now I out walkingThe world desert,And my shoe and my stockingDo me no hurt.I leave behindGood friends in town.Let them get well-winedAnd go lie down.Don't think I leaveFor the outer darkLike Adam and EvePut out of the Park.
Forget the myth.There is no one I Am put out withOr put out by.Unless I'm wrong I but obeyThe urge of a song:I'm—bound—away!And I may returnIf dissatisfiedWith what I learnFrom having died.
Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
About Poetry • Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. • Poetry is what gets lost in translation. • Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. • Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. • A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
About Life • The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. • Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. • In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. • I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
What we live by we die by. • The best way out is always through. • Home is the place where, when you have to go there,They have to take you in. • Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out.
About Frost • I'm not a teacher, but an awakener. • I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. • I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old. • I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
Whimsical Quotes • Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me. • A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. • A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
“I took the one the less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.”
