Snippets from Robert Frost

For my Author Quest, I chose to focus on four poems by Robert Frost:

• “The Road Not Taken”
• “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
• “Home Burial”
• “Design”

Frost was rarely, directly an autobiographical poet, but his poetry reveals his personality, beliefs, and values.What makes Frost’s poems so effective is his erratic use of rhyme and his attempt to avoid traditional verse forms. If you take a closer look at one of his poems, they flow evenly and rhyme occasionally, but they avoid the sing-song monotony of some modern poets. “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.” (Gwynn 616). Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is one of Frost’s most overly criticized pieces. People are too quick to make assumptions and an interpretation without having prior knowledge of Frost’s writing style.

The data base that I used to find various opinions was:

Contemporary Authors Online. Thompson and Gale

This site was very helpful because he covered all aspects of Robert Frost. It included a full biography as well as criticism. In addition, I used a literature text, which I will be citing in my paper.