Robert Frost: An Analytical look into his life and achievements
...tzer prizes, the library of congress’s consultant in poetry, and having the great honor of possessing friendships with presidents, foreign dignitaries, famous poets, and common people alike. Frost was no stranger to presidents such as Eisenhower and Kennedy, in February 1958 Frost was invited to the white house by Dwight D, Eisenhower, to draft a statement of support for an upcoming trial for a close friend, and fellow poet Ezra Pound, who was being held in a Washington D.C. metal hospital (Pound was discharged from the federal mental hospital in May.) In 1914 with the start of the first world war that caused the tension between two rivaling countries, Frost was already establishing his right as a poet. By the end of the war in 1918, the centuries-old European domination head ended and gave way to the “American Century” in which Frost would play a major role. Frost along wit hand full of other poets was instrumental in effecting a changed in the era to a modernist society. Not only was frost a modernist at heart but a modernist in poetry as well. Along wit such authors as E.E Cummings, a poet whose poetic from was as unique as it was brilliant, front and the other poets of the time were successful in bringing about the Era of modernism. In 1915 Frost published two full-length collections, A boy will and north of Boston, and his reputation was established as one of the most influential people of the time, and by the nineteen-twenties, he was the most celebrated poet in America and with the addition of each ...