Robert’s poems were influenced by the Modernist period and by his personal background. In order to understand Robert Frost’s poems, you need to understand his view of nature. To him, throughout all of his struggles, nature was something he could turn to, a solace. Robert had many people and things who influenced his writings such as, Mr. Thomas and Mr. Graves, nature, his wife, his father and children’s deaths, his emotions, and the Modernist style of writing. Therefore, in order to understand Robert’s poems, you must understand what he went through in his life; his trials, struggles, and the events that shaped him and his poetry.
Robert Frost was influenced by both his personal background and by the Modernist style of writing. His works have …show more content…
He writes in a very open, sad, and melancholy way and you can see the raw emotion of the conflicts in his life that come into his poems. For example, in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “The Road Not Taken”, the first person is alone and looking at the nature around him while admiring its vastness and the perfection of it. “ ...The woods are lovely, dark and deep...” (“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”) “...And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; ...” (“The Road Not