Monday, November 11, 2013

Personal ties into Frost's Poetry

I find it very interesting how Frost's poems connect to his personal life.  Like many of his poems, Frost had a very depressing adult life. In 1885 (he was only 11), his father died of tuberculosis. They only had $8 to survive off of. Then, his mom died of cancer in 1900. THEN, in 1920, he had to put his sister into a wacky house, where she was for nine years before she died. He and his mother experienced from chronic depression.  No make matters worse,  his daughter Irma was sent to a mental hospital in 1947. Many of his poems have to do with being alone and dealing with sorrow, like in "Home Burial".  So I found this interesting.

-Call me English J.

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