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=Robert Frost= Robert Frost was born on March 24, 1874 in San Francisco, California but moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts when he was eleven years old. Frost graduated from Lawrence High School in 1892 and attended the Dartmouth College for two months. Later he studies liberal arts at Harvard but had to leave to support his growing family. He moved to a farm in Derry, New Hampshire where he worked the farm for the next nine years. When his farming proved unsuccessful, he started teaching at the Pinkerton Academy in 1906. In 1912, he moved to England where his first book, //A Boys will// was published. For forty-two years, from 1921 to 1963, Frost spent almost every summer and fall teaching at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College, at the mount fall teaching at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College, at the mountain campus at Ripton, Vermont. Frost’s private life was plagued with grief and loss. He had to commit his younger sister, Jeanie, to a mental institution and later he had to do the same for his daughter.His son Carol committed suicide. 

The Pasture
The speaker is asking leave from a loved one as he has work to do on the farm. He says that he won’t be long and will just rake the leaves away or watch the water clear. He asks the person to come along.The speaker talks of a little calf that is standing by its motherand says he will get it too. It is not entirely clear in the poem who the speaker is talking to. Is it a child or a lover? This poem is one Frost earlier ones and could be a love song for his wife. The speaker does not want to leave his lover but has chores to do. So he explains that he will not be gone for long and will be back as soon as he finishes his work. He urges his liver to come along too so that he won’t have to leave her. The reference to the calf and it mother shows the presence of love that could refer to love for his lover .

Desert Places
In desert places Robert Frost uses the winter landscape to describe the loneliness and solitude. The poem starts with the falling of night and the snowfall covering the ground. This signifies th  e numbness of emotion and emptiness that has befallen the speaker. He says that the woods have it too, that is loneliness, and the animals are smothered to their lair. But he says that he is too absent spirited to notice that the loneliness has included him too. The speaker, who is in a state of depression feels that it will only get worse and not better, with the solitude and numbness of emotion increasing, and there be nothing to express. The poem ends bleakly with the speaker comparing his emptiness to the emptiness of the space. He feels he does not need the emptiness of the space to scare his when he has his loneliness to be sacred of. Robert Frost has used imagery to convey to the readers the speaker’s loneliness. This poem shows the darks side of Frost’s poetry. His personal life was wrought with grief that is one of the reasons that his poems deal solitude and even sometimes have subtle references to death. That is why he is considered by some to be terrifying poet. In this poem he compares the solitude in his life to the winter landscape which is absolutely barren. In his state of depression he sees no hope and thinks it can only get worse. By comparing his emptiness with the emptiness of the space he creates a very terrifying image, an image of a person who is all alone in the vast universe. This image is very powerful in conveying the meaning of the poem.

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Fire and Ice
In this poem Robert Frost present a very pessimistic view about human race. He is asking the readers to think about how the earth would be destroyed. He provides us with two different and contrasting ways in which the world could end. In the first few lines he says that could be either fire or ice but does not tell us what they stand for. But later he compares the fire to desire and ice to hate. He compares them t o his experience and says that they both are potent enough to destroy the earth. Frost uses alliteration in “Some Say” and “Favor Fire”. He also uses metaphor to convey the destructive power of human nature. Instead of being destroyed by natural disasters, humans will themselves destroy the earth. He compares desire to fire that can spread rapidly and destroy everything in its path. People view hate as being destructive but here, Frost gives precedence to destructive power of fire over that of hate. “From what I have tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire”. Perhaps frost is saying that love used in a wrong way can lead to destruction. But he might also be referring to the power of love to hurt people. How love can destroy a person when a loved one leaves them. In his life, Frost had lost his son to suicide and his wife to cancer. He has experienced the destructive of love. That could be the reason that he considers love to be more capable of destruction that hate. In last two line he says that even hate would be sufficient to destroy the earth but that would be if the earth was to perish twice. this reinforce his view that desire and love and more destructive.

Neither out far nor out in deep
In this poem, Robert Frost is commenting on those people who are forever in search of the truth. The people standing along the shore, looking out to the sea are in search for some form of the truth that defines their existence, like the gull that stares at the sea which is the source of its existence. As a result “They turn their back to the land” (3). They become detached from their own lives and obligation that they have. The image of a solitary gull on the seashore, which is unusual since gulls are found in flocks, conveys how deh media type="youtube" key="ZtIba2CS2lo" height="337" width="410" align="right"<span style="color: #003aff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">umanizing this activity is. In their pursuit of truth they have isolated themselves from the society. The speaker feels that even though that land may have truth to offer, people look at the sea to find the answers.

“ //The land may vary more;// // But wherever the truth may be--- The water comes ashore, And the people look at the sea.” //

Her Frost may be trying to say that people are indeed gulls, that is, they are dupes. Answers that they could find in their daily lives, they try to find by giving up that life. He feels that they are wasting away their time in this meaningless quest. Their efforts are worthless because no matter how much they search for it, they cannot look too far out or too in deep to actually find the truth.

Mowing
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