7 Robert Frost Short Poems That Describes Life

Robert Frost Short Poems That Describes Life :

One of the poems I remember, which I was taught in my childhood is "The Road Not Taken".There are times I recall the poem when I have to take some important decisions in my life. It is a simple poem but with a deep meaning.

It lets you think the choices you make in your life. The moral is that keep the confidence and faith while you choose the path of your life and lead it the way so that it leaves the trail.

#7 Acquainted with The Night

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I have been one acquainted with the night.

I have walked out in rain—and back in rain.

I have outwalked the furthest city light.

I have looked down the saddest city lane.

I have passed by the watchman on his beat

And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet

When far away an interrupted cry

Came over houses from another street,

But not to call me back or say good-bye;

And further still at an unearthly height,
 One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed 
the time was neither wrong nor right. 
I have been one acquainted with the night.Acquainted with The Night

#6 Stopping By Woods On Snowing Evening

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Whose woods these are I think I know. 

His house is in the village though; 

He will not see me stopping here 

To watch his woods fill up with snow. 

My little horse must think it queer 

To stop without a farmhouse near 

Between the woods and frozen lake 

The darkest evening of the year. 

He gives his harness bells a shake 

To ask if there is some mistake. 

The only other sound’s the sweep 

Of easy wind and downy flake. 

The woods are lovely, dark and deep, 

But I have promises to keep, 

And miles to go before I sleep, 

And miles to go before I sleep.

#5 Nothing Gold Can Stay Gold

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Nature’s first green is gold, 

Her hardest hue to hold. 

Her early leaf's a flower; 

But only so an hour. 

Then leaf subsides to leaf. 

So Eden sank to grief, 

So dawn goes down to day. 

Nothing gold can stay.

#4 A Question

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A voice said, Look me in the stars

And tell me truly, men of earth,

If all the soul-and-body scars

Were not too much to pay for birth.

#3 The Oven Bird

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There is a singer everyone has heard,

Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird,

Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again.

He says that leaves are old and that for flowers

Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten.

He says the early petal-fall is past

When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers

On sunny days a moment overcast;

And comes that other fall we name the fall.

He says the highway dust is over all.

The bird would cease and be as other birds

But that he knows in singing not to sing.

The question that he frames in all but words

Is what to make of a diminished thing.

#2 Fire And Ice

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Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

#1 The Road Not Taken

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

About Robert Frost

You can buy his collection of poems here -The Road Not Taken and Other Poems by Robert Frost. The book is a collection of classic poems including The Road Not Taken, Mending Walls, Birches, and many more.

1. Robert Frost was known for writing regarding settings from rural life in England within the early twentieth century. His social and philosophical themes were inspired by it. 
2. Frost was honored often throughout his life period, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. Also, he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his poetic works. 
3. His first poem was "My Butterfly. An Elegy" (published in the November 8, 1894, edition of the New York Independent) He sold the poem at 15 dollars.happy with his accomplishment, he proposed wedding to Elinor Miriam White, however, she demurred, as she wanted to end school before they married. 
4. His epitaph quotes the last line from his poem, "The Lesson for Today" (1942): "I had a lover's quarrel with the world." 
5. His first of four Pulitzer Prize was for the book New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes. 
6. Frost attended Harvard from 1897 to 1899, however, he left voluntarily due to ill health. Shortly before his death, Frost's grandad purchased a farm for in New Hampshire. Frost worked the farm for 9 years whereas writing early within the mornings and manufacturing several of the poems that later become noted.

You can look at the album:

Robert Frost Reading His Own Poems

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