When Frost and his family returned to the United States in February 1915, he was hailed as a leading voice of the "new poetry" movement. In the following year he was made Phi Beta Kappa poet at Harvard and elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters. By the end of 1914, however, financial need forced him to leave Britain. By August, Frost's reputation as a leading poet had been firmly established in England, and Henry Holt of New York had agreed to publish his books in America. In May 1915, North of Boston appeared, to be hailed in June by important reviews. By April 1913, most of the poems that would constitute North of Boston had been written. In October the book was accepted for publication. Before long he was finishing the manuscript of A Boy's Will. On 2 September 1912, the Frosts arrived in London. He suggested to Elinor that they move to England, and she enthusiastically agreed. In July 1912, he started making plans for a radical change of scene. In the fall of 1911 he was teaching again in Plymouth, New Hampshire. Afterward, they moved to Derry, New Hampshire. Elinor was devastated, but had to continue to care for their year old daughter, Lesley. Frost never forgave himself for not having summoned a doctor in time, believing that God was punishing him. Two months later, Elliot, now three years old, fell ill with cholera and died. Frost gave up teaching and rented a poultry farm in Methuen. In March 1899, however, severe chest and stomach pains combined with worries about his ailing mother and pregnant wife forced him to leave Harvard. In the fall of 1897, thanks to his grandfather's loan, Frost, at age twenty-three, entered Harvard in the hope of becoming a high school teacher of Latin and Greek. They both kept working as teachers, and Frost kept publishing poems. Nine months later their son Elliot was born. Eventually, however, she said yes and on December 19, 1895, they were married. After this victory, he once again implored Elinor to marry him, and once again she refused. At the end of the term, good news greeted him: the New York Independent had accepted "My Butterfly: An Elegy," with a stipend of $15. Frost began working as a lamp trimmer in a factory in Lawrence, but quit after a few months to teach and write poetry. He hoped that when Elinor came home in April that he could persuade her to drop out as well and marry him, but his efforts proved fruitless and she returned to college. Isolated and restless, he quit at the end of December. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, and Frost attended Dartmouth on a scholarship. After graduation and before the summer ended, they pledged themselves to each other in a secret ritual. At the beginning of his senior year he fell in love with Elinor White, who had also published poetry in the school newspaper. During high school, Frost became a writer: his poem "La Noche Triste," appeared in the high school newspaper. Frost's high school years were spent in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Before long he was memorizing poetry and reading books on his own. Frost's childhood was filled with literature- his mother read Shakespeare, Bible stories, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and other poets and writers aloud to him. After his father died, his mother moved them to Salem, New Hampshire. Robert Frost was born Robert Lee Frost in San Francisco, California to Isabelle Moodie and William Prescott Frost Jr. However, the second does not flow quite so well.Literature Review / Dissertation Chapters The first line feels slightly smoother the first, fourth, seventh, tenth and thirteenth syllables are all stressed. We stopped by a mountain pasture to say, “Whose colt?” Once when the snow of the year was be ginning to fall, A contemporary analysis of Frost notes that "The Runaway", while using the meter, is irregular even in the first few lines:
However, it is an odd, even informal variant. Iambic pentameter, of course, permeates Frost's work. Eliot, although Frost continued writing the same way. In the early 20th century, such a structure was rejected by Ezra Pound and T.
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I'd sooner write free verse as play tennis with the net down.Ī review by William O'Donnell says that Frost is "unequalled" by any British or American poets in the 19th century in his use of blank verse. Blank verse has such a meter, while free verse does not. That said, most of these do have a continuous meter.
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