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=//__ Robert Frost  __//=

=__ About Frost __=

Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26,1874. At age eleven he moved to New England. That is when and where he became interested in reading and writing poetry.He went to Dartmouth College in 1892 and then later enrolled at Harvard. He was many things before he was a poet. He was a teacher, [|cobbler], and editor of the Lawrence Sentinel."My Butterfly" was his first published poem. It was published by New York newspaper //The Independent// on November 8, 1894. Frost married Elinor Miriam White in 1895. She was his main inspiration for poetry until she died in 1938. Frost moved to England in 1912 where he met many famouse poets. When he returned in 1915 he puplished two full collections: //North of Boston// and //A Boy's Will//.

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=__ Famous Works __=

//Into My Own//
One of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze, Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom, But stretched away unto the edge of doom.

I should not be withheld but that some day Into their vastness I should steal away, Fearless of ever finding open land, Or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand.

I do not see why I should e'er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me,who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear.

They would not find me changed from him they knew-- Only more sure of all I thought was true.

//The Oven Bird//
There is a singer everyone has heard, Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird, Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again. He says that leaves are old and that for flowers Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten. He says the early petal-fall is past When pear and cherry bloom went down in the showers On sunny days a moment overcast; And comes that other fall we name the fall. He says the highway dust is over all. The bird would cease and be as other birds But that he knows in singing not to sing. The question that he frames in all but words Is what to make of a diminished thing.

//The Vantage Point//
If tired of trees I seek again mankind, Well I know where to hie me--in the dawn, To a slope where the cattle keep the lawn. There amid lolling juniper reclined, Myself unseen, I see in white defined Far off the homes of men, and farther still, The graves of men on an opposing hill, Living or dead, whichever are to mind.

And if by noon I have too much of these, I have but to turn on my arm, and lo, The sun-burned hillside sets my face aglow, My breathing shakes the bluet like a breeze, I smell the earth, I smell the bruisèd plant, I look into the crater of the ant.

=__Analyses of The Poems Above__=

Analysis of //Into My Own//
Theme: Frost is trying to find his own personality.He wants to be known for who he was. Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GG My Reaction: The poem, to me, was very interesting. It was a little confusing but a very well written poem.

Analysis of The Oven Bird
Theme: I think that Frost is trying to say seasons go past and we barely notice. Rhyme Scheme: AABCBDCCDEEFGFG My Reaction: Another great poem. I like how he worded it and everything. Well written.

Analysis of The Vantage Point
Theme: Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCA DEEDDFFD My Reaction: