![]() ![]() ![]() His poetry is thus both traditional and experimental, regional and universal. ![]() Although his verse forms are traditional - he often said, in a dig at arch rival Carl Sandburg, that he would as soon play tennis without a net as write free verse - he was a pioneer in the interplay of rhythm and meter and in the poetic use of the vocabulary and inflections of everyday speech. Mending Wall, the leading poem in North of Boston, describes the friendly argument between the speaker and his neighbor as they walk along their common wall replacing fallen stones their differing attitudes toward boundaries offer symbolic significance typical of the poems in these early collections. An essentially pastoral poet often associated with rural New England, Frost wrote poems whose philosophical dimensions transcend any region. ![]() He was one of America's leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He could not find any publishers who were willing to underwrite his other poems. Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco, March 26, 1874, and died in Boston, January 29, 1963. His 1916 poem, 'The Road Not Taken,' is often. ![]()
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