Why was Robert frost's decision difficult to make?

Answer 1

Some things that Robert Frost did include:

Robert worked on a farm for nine years.

He taught English at Amherst College, Massachusetts.

He was teaching at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College.

He had a fellowship teaching post at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Titles are important in Frost's work, and are key to a view into the mind of the poet and how his experiences guided him. An excellent example of this is found in an interview with Frost shortly before his death. The interviewer asked Frost if his poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening" was a death poem as he had been taught in school. Frost thought for a moment and replied that it could be if the reader brought that to it while reading it, but that he had not intended for it to be. When he wrote it, he was quite literally inspired by a sleigh ride home one evening. It was snowing lightly, and as he passed a stand of trees, he stopped and watched the snow fall.

The words of the poem have been interpreted for years as a death poem, largely because of the final lines. "Miles to go before I sleep, / Miles to go before I sleep." Sleep being a metaphor for death.

Sometimes though sleep is just that. Or the final result at the end of a busy day.

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy EveningWhose 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.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound's the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

Frost was often inspired by the things he saw around him. He was a literal but crafty writer. One of my personal favorites of Frost's poems is "Reluctance."

ReluctanceOut through the fields and the woods

And over the walls I have wended;

I have climbed the hills of view

And looked at the world, and descended;

I have come by the highway home,

And lo, it is ended.

The leaves are all dead on the ground,

Save those that the oak is keeping

To ravel them one by one

And let them go scraping and creeping

Out over the crusted snow,

When others are sleeping.

And the dead leaves lie huddled and still,

No longer blown hither and thither;

The last lone aster is gone;

The flowers of the witch-hazel wither;

The heart is still aching to seek,

But the feet question 'Whither?'

Ah, when to the heart of man

Was it ever less than a treason

To go with the drift of things,

To yield with a grace to reason,

And bow and accept the end

Of a love or a season?

It seems to give this sense of darkness or gloom that accompanies winter, but you see in the last stanza that the speaker has juxtaposed this winter imagery with the tendency for man to resist being herded. Hence the title, "Reluctance."

Frost could just as easily have intended for this poem to say something different. This is what I get from it, and being able to support it from the work makes it a valid interpretation.

Answer 4

Robert Frost's decision was difficult to make because it involved choosing between two paths or options that seemed equally appealing or promising. He was faced with a dilemma where either choice could have significant consequences, leading to inner conflict and uncertainty.

Answer 5

He became a poet because he became interested in reading and writing poetry during his high school years in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Answer 6

Robert frost jobs: Cobbler, teacher, and editor of the "Lawrence sentinel"

Answer 7

It was difficult 2 make desicion becaz he hd 2 take a momentous decision of leaving his country.US.to settle in London