A Birthday in March - Frost

Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco. He became interested in reading and writing poetry during his high school years in Lawrence, enrolled at Dartmouth College in Vermont in 1892, and later at Harvard University in Boston, though he never earned a formal college degree. His first published poem, "My Butterfly," appeared on November 8, 1894, in the New York newspaper The Independent.

Robert Frost Biography

Robert Frost and his wife, Elinor, moved to England in 1912 and it was abroad that 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.

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Though his work is principally associated with the life and landscape of New England—and though he was a poet of traditional verse forms and metrics who remained steadfastly aloof from the poetic movements and fashions of his time—Frost is anything but merely a regional poet. The author of searching and often dark meditations on universal themes, he is a quintessentially modern poet in his adherence to language as it is actually spoken, in the psychological complexity of his portraits, and in the degree to which his work is infused with layers of ambiguity and irony. - Read the full article at Poets.org, where you will also find a list with links to many of his well-known poems.

I am certain that we all have favourite lines written by Robert Frost, that have been as closely held as old companions, or poems which we memorized in our youths and never forgot. He had a way of summing up simple truths in single sentences, while demonstrating an intense understanding of the human condition. For this challenge, I encourage you all to revisit his poetry, or peruse a variety of his quoted words on Goodreads.com and to respond in what ever way you feel inspired to do.