Poetry Mowing

By: Robert Frost

Prepared by: Hussein Kamal Hassan

Outline

Biography Robert Frost’s earnings The poem Vocabulary References

Robert Frost

Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, California.

He start writing poems in high schoolHe married Elinor White in 1895. In 1894 he sold his first poem, "My Butterfly”. In 1912 he sold his farm and went to England

along with his family. his first two poetry volumes were published in

London in 1913 (A Boy's Will) and 1914 (North of Boston).

  Ezra Pound was the first writer who review Frost’s work.

In August 1914, Frost and Elinor were return to America.

After settling down on a farm in 1915, Frost began a long career as a teacher at several colleges .

During his lifetime, Frost would receive more than 40 honorary degrees.

Received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He died in January 29, 1963 (aged 89)

Boston, Massachusetts, US.

There was never a sound beside the wood but one,And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground.What was it it whispered? I knew not well myself;Perhaps it was something about the heat of the sun,Something, perhaps, about the lack of sound—And that was why it whispered and did not speak.It was no dream of the gift of idle hours,Or easy gold at the hand of fay or elf:Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weakTo the earnest love that laid the swale in rows,Not without feeble-pointed spikes of flowers(Pale orchises), and scared a bright green snake.The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make.

Vocabulary

Scythe Elf

Vocabulary Swale Orchid

What kind of figure of speech can you find in the poem ?

Refrences

•  Ellman, Richard and Robert O'Clair. The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, Second Edition. New York: Norton, 1988.

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