ROBERT FROST (1874 – 1963)

Hey all, Robert Frost was born in San Fransisco and brought up in New England (U.S.A). He took to poetry in 1912 and his first volume A Boy’s Will was published a year later. He was a farmer poet, and his twin vocation of farming and writing poetry remained with him as a pattern of living throughout his life. His second book of dramatic dialogues North of Boston (1914) made him very popular. The years between 1913 and 1963 were mixed with fame and family misfortunes. He received more honours than any other contemporary literary figure in America. Four times he was awarded the pultizer prize for poetry. He read his patriotic poem The Gift Outright, when President John F.Kennedy took office in 1961. The last four lines of his poem stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening were a source of comfort and inspiration to Jawaharlal Nehru. Other anthologies of Frost are Mountain Interval (1916), New Hampshire (1923), West Running Brook (1928), A Further Range (1936), A Witness Tree (1942) and In the Clearing (1962). When he died peacefully in sleep at the age of eighty-eight he was survived by his Jaughter.

After Apple- Picking is a lyric taken from North of Boston. The long monologue brings out the poet’s sheer enjoyment of the scenes,sounds and scents of nature. The weary apple picker who has “done with apple-picking” drifts into a drowsy state in which fact and fancy play hide and seek. Thanks and Regards.