F on my A to Z Classics Reads challenge was this book of Frost poems.
Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874. When he was ten, his father died and he and his mother moved to New England. He attended school at Dartmouth and Harvard, worked in a mill, taught, and took up farming, before he moved to England, where his first books of poetry, A Boy’s Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914), were published. North of Boston brought him recognition as the preeminent voice of New England and as one of America’s major poets. In 1915 he returned to the United States and settled on a farm in New Hampshire. Four volumes of his poetry, New Hampshire (1923), Collected Poems (1930), A Further Range (1936), and A Witness Tree (1942) were all awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He died in 1963.
I’m sorry to say I was not a fan. I do actually love poetry and books written in verse. However I am not a huge fan of nature, and definitely not a fan of farm life…….I know horrible. It just is. The city is where I feel zen. I love the ocean however, its sounds and it’s smell and feeling you get standing on shore. As for Frost, I really did try. It just did not give me the warm fuzzy zen feeling of peace other poetry does. This is also the current poet my son is studying at his Ambleside school. He has not formed an opinion yet. He loved William Wordsworth.
On to another letter in my challenge.
Peace.
