Robert Frost married Elinor Miriam White in 1895 who was a major inspiration for his writings. After marriage, the couple tried living a farming life in New Hampshire. Not satisfied with such life, Robert Frost along with his wife and family moved to England. It was there where Frost met and was influenced by such contemporary British poets as Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, and Robert Graves. While in England, Frost also established a friendship with the poet Ezra Pound, who helped to promote and publish his work. His wife was major inspiration for his poems until her death in 1938. They had six children together, but only two of them outlived their father.
Robert Frost was given the honor to speak at John F. Kennedy's Inauguration. As inauguration day approached, Frost surprised himself by composing a new poem, "Dedication", which he planned to read as a preface to the poem Kennedy requested. However, on the drive to the Capitol on January 20, 1961, Frost worried that the piece, typed on one of the hotel typewriters the night before, was difficult to read even in good light. When he stood to recite the poem, the wind and the bright reflection of sunlight made reading the poem impossible. He was able, however, to recite "The Gift Outright" from memory.
Robert Frost wrote many poems, about many different aspects of life. He maintained that a poem is "never a put-up job.... It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a loneliness. It is never a thought to begin with. It is at its best when it is a tantalizing vagueness." This is statement to me is a powerful one and perfectly explains how a poetry should be written. It should be written through emotions one is feeling at a perticular moment not through over thinking one's feelings, simply from the heart and not from the mind...
My Favorite poem by Robert Frost is The Road Not Taken. The poem is about standing at the "cross roads" of life. There are two paths a person can take, the choice is absolutely up to that person. No matter which road one takes, there is no turning back to take that other road. That is why most of the time we ask ourselves the question "what if?"...What if we made different choices about the life we're living, where would we be, where would've we end up, we might never know. Like in the poem, even though both of the roads were equal distance, he picked the one "traveled less". There is no right or wrong path, what matters is what choices we make walking on that path, choices that we should not regret and decission we should not doubt.
