Biography robert frost 1963 thunderbird

America has a national bird (the bald eagle), a national flower (the rose), and a national anthem (come on, you know this one). If the United States ever adopted a national poet, chances are it would be Robert Frost.

By the time Frost died in at the age of 88, an admiring public had all but carved his face on Mount Rushmore.

Biography robert frost 1963 thunderbird pictures

His poetry was beloved. Frost earned the Pulitzer Prize a record four times. Though he never graduated from college, more than forty universities and colleges have awarded him honorary degrees. Not only was Frost tapped to speak at the inauguration of John F.

Kennedy, but the handsome young President-elect was actually worried that the crowd would be more interested in the august poet than in him.

Biography robert frost 1963 thunderbird

Frost stood right at the crossroads of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He does not fit neatly into any one era. He was one of the first poets to advocate for individualism in language, before the idea was fashionable&#;in , just as Frost was becoming famous,