ROBERT FROSTBy: Giovanni D, Kristian M, Jordan B, Eric C, Osiris A.

GETTING TO KNOW ROBERT FROST

• Robert frost was born in San Francisco, California on March 26,1874.

• He had Died in Boston, Massachusetts on January 29, 1963.

• Robert Frost had lived in Lawrence, Massachusetts and was 88 years old when he died.

• In the First half of Robert Frost life he had wrote about nature and how beautiful it was after most of his family died, Robert had wrote depressing poems.

• Robert had spent most of his life teaching in many different colleges through out the united states.

CAUSE OF DEPRESSION• Robert Frost's personal life was plagued with grief and loss. In 1885 when Frost

was 11, his father died of tuberculosis leaving the family with just eight dollars. Frost's mother died of cancer in 1900. In 1920, Frost had to commit his younger sister Jeanie to a mental hospital where she died nine years later. Mental illness apparently ran in Frost's family, as both he and his mother suffered from depression, and his daughter Irma was committed to a mental hospital in 1947. Frost's wife Elinor also experienced bouts of depression.

• Elinor and Robert Frost had six children: Elliot (1896–1904)(died of cholera), Lesley Frost Ballantine (1899–1983), Carol (1902–1940)(committed suicide) Irma (1903–1967), Marjorie (1905–1934)(died as a result of puerperal fever after childbirth), and Elinor Bettina (died just three days after her birth in 1907). Only Lesley and Irma outlived their father. Frost's wife, who had heart problems throughout her life, developed breast cancer in 1937, and died of heart failure in 1938.

INTERESTING FACTS• Robert had won 4 Pulitzers prizes in the years of 1924,1931,1937,1943

and were all in the category of poetry.• Robert had met with the Russian president Nikita Khrushchen.• During the late President John f. Kennedy’s inauguration, Robert Frost

read his poem entitled “The Gift Outright”

RHYME SCHEME- A rhyme scheme is the pattern of

rhyme between lines of a poem or song.

Example: When you hear a rapper, or singer rhyme in a song. Artist like Eminem, Nas, and Tupac Shakur.

IMAGERY- The way the author’s use language

to describe a scene and you see it vividly in your mind.

Example: One example is when you read something or listen to someone and get a picture of what the author wrote or the artist said in your head. Artist such as Bruno Mars, Usher, and Michael Jackson.

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.

• This poem is about how he thinks that things that turned out amazing never last long. He also compares all of his family members in this poem.

ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT• I have been one acquainted with the night.• I have walked out in the rain-and back in the rain.• I have out walked the furthest city light.• I have looked down the saddest city lane.• I have passed by the watchmen on his beat.• And dropped my eyes, unwillingly to explain.• I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet.• When far away an interrupted cry came over

houses from another street.• But not to call me back or say good-bye.• And further still an unearthly height.• One luminary clock against the sky.• Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.• I have been one acquainted with the night.

Robert Frost had hit a time of depression when he had wrote this poem, which in turn the poem had ended up being all about depression.

Examples of a rhyme scheme

• Ex : So dawn goes down to day, Nothing gold can stay

• Ex : Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right, I have been one acquainted with the night.

Examples of Imagery

• Ex: Her early leaf's a flower, But only so an hour.

• Ex: I have looked down the saddest city lane, I have passed by the watchmen on his beat, And dropped my eyes, unwillingly to explain, I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet.

HISTORICAL CONTEXT• As World War I began, Frost returned to America in 1915 and bought a

farm in Franconia, New Hampshire where he launched a career of writing, teaching and lecturing. This family homestead served as the Frosts' summer home until 1938. It is maintained today as The Frost Place, a museum and poetry conference site.