Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frost's poetry offers a continual, often contradictory questioning of, mulling over, joking about, Frost's (and man's) place in the world and what can or cannot be known (and done) about it. Heroic pronouncements, grandiose, soul-satisfying finalities, were not his style. "There may be much or little beyond the grave." he wrote. "But the strong are saying nothing until they see." Survival for the individual, he felt, was a difficult job. a thing to be handled alone and with prudence. If he himself, like the woodchuck, lasts...
...Frost believed that the fix man finds himself in, whatever it is, is not something new, or something to whine about, or something that is likely to change...
Poems by Lamplight. Frost was so completely a part of the present-day life of America that it was often hard to realize that he had been born during the Administration of Ulysses S. Grant. Another paradox: this professional Yankee was born in San Francisco, the son of a transplanted New England editor-politician. But his father died when Frost was eleven, and his mother took him back to what was to become his native soil. He tried two colleges (Dartmouth, Harvard), and quit both. In the years that followed, he scrabbled out an existence on a New Hampshire farm...
...poet's own generation cannot issue him a passport to immortality, even when it would like to. Robert Frost was no literary revolutionary, like Walt Whitman or T. S. Eliot. But he is more controlled and artful than Whitman, less narrowly contemporary than the early Eliot, wider-ranging than that fellow precisionist, Emily Dickinson. Some of these had strengths that were not his, as he had strengths that were not theirs. His own generation can only be sure that he belongs in high company...
...From Complete Poems of Robert Frost, copyrighted by Robert Frost and Holt, Rinehart & Winston...