By Emma Valade

Birth & Death Place Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California He died at 88 years old of sickness on January 29, 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts

Family Life Robert was the first child born in his family His mother’s name was Isabelle Frost and his father’s name was William Frost Jr. Isabelle influenced him into literature when she read to him when he was younger He had a younger sister named Jeanie

Education He graduated from Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Massachusetts Attended Dartmouth College and taught at grammar schools In 1897 he went to Harvard University but left before completing degree requirements due to tuberculosis and the birth of his second child

Relationships He married Elinor White on December 19, 1895 and had their first child, Elliot, in They had six children: a son Elliot, a daughter Lesley, a son Carol, a daughter Irma, a daughter Marjorie, and a daughter Elinor His wife died in 1938

Style “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is written in iambic tetrameter. A poem written in iambic tetrameter contains a total of eight syllables in each line All of his poems are written in this style

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening By Robert Frost 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.

Poetic Devices Imagery Imagery is a set of mental pictures produced by the memory or imagination Ex 1: "The darkest evening of the year.“ Ex 2: "Of easy wind and downy flake."

Assonance Assonance is the similarity of two or more vowel sounds or the repetition of two or more consonant sounds. Ex: "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."

Personification Personification is a figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is given human qualities or abilities. Ex: "He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake."