Who is Robert Frost?

Robert Lee Frost(1874-1963) was one of America's best-known and best-loved poets. He was born in San Francisco, but was famous for his poetry of describing the natural beauty in New England. He went to England in 1912 and was recognized as a great poet after he published his two books of poems: A Boy's Will in 1913 and North of Boston in 1914. After the popularity of the success he made in England, he returned back to New England, settled in New Hampshire, and had his poetry- writing and college-teaching career there. Frost usually wrote and spoke in simple language with quiet humor, yet he was wise in the ways of the world. His poems often begin in delight and end in wisdom, revealing universal significance in them, and call for readers' deep thought behind the poems' description of familiar scenes in their ordinary life. Nevertheless, this simplicity of language expressing the universal essence of life and the easy speech patterns and rhymes attract even more people to appreciate the meaning of life and become attached to his poems. No wonder the poet was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943. And that can fully account for the fact that he was considered to be far more popular and more successful than the majority of his contemporaries.