Natural Imagery In Robert Frost

An Introduction. This chapter presents an historical background of the life, works and conceptions related within natural imagery in selected poems written by the American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963).A Great American poet-Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, where his father, William Prescott Frost Jr., and his mother, Isabelle Moodie, had moved from Pennsylvania shortly after marrying. After the death of his father from tuberculosis when Frost was eleven years old, he moved with his mother and sister, Jeanie, who was two years younger, to Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became interested in reading and writing poetry during his high school years in Lawrence. Frost drifted through a string of occupations after leaving school, working as a teacher, cobbler, and editor of the Lawrence Sentinel. In 1895, Frost married Elinor Miriam White, whom he’d shared valedictorian honors with in high school and who was a major inspiration for his poetry until her death in 1938. The couple moved to England in 1912, after they tried and failed at farming in New Hampshire. Moreover, who is generally regarded as one of the twentieth-century prominent American poets; he is a symbolist poet on the grounds that he uses natural imagery allusive of particular daily situations and experiences; he uses certain images so that, in addition to their meanings, they allude to abstract thoughts which appear to be more important and resonant.

It was abroad that Frost met and