ROBERT FROST
LINK TO POEMS
Robert Frost
Goals:
Students will understand and utilize literary elements to analyze poetry
Students will read a variety of poems
Students will apply a variety of reading strategies appropriate for reading poetry
(Listening, Identifying the speaker, Reading according to poetic punctuation, Using picture and imagery)
Bell Ringers:
Identify the following terms by using context clues:
TUESDAY, 1/2
The apples that I picked upon a BOUGH
A. Showing good judgement; wise and careful B.Tree branch C. Something that is plainly revealed D. A shallow V-shaped container from which farm animals drink or eat
The animals skimmed this morning from the drinking TROUGH
A. Showing good judgement; wise and careful B.Tree branch C. Something that is plainly revealed D. A shallow V-shaped container from which farm animals drink or eat
Good manners and tolerance, which are the highest MANIFESTATION of style, can often transform disaster
A. Showing good judgement; wise and careful B.Tree branch C. Something that is plainly revealed D. A shallow V-shaped container from which farm animals drink or eat
A JUDICIOUS response to a joke can disarm a rude person, removing the power to injure.
A. Showing good judgement; wise and careful B.Tree branch C. Something that is plainly revealed D. A shallow V-shaped container from which farm animals drink or eat
Goals:
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech,[2] Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.
Frost was admired for his depictions of the rural life of New England, his command of American colloquial speech, and his realistic verse portraying ordinary people in everyday situations.
Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime and is the only poet to receive four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He became one of America's rare "public literary figures, almost an artistic institution".[3] He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his poetic works. On July 22, 1961, Frost was named poet laureate of Vermont.
His life:
Frost’s father, William Prescott Frost, Jr., was a journalist with ambitions of establishing a career in California, and in 1873 he and his wife moved to San Francisco. Her husband’s untimely death from tuberculosis in 1885 prompted Isabelle Moodie Frost to take her two children, Robert and Jeanie, to Lawrence, Massachusetts, where they were taken in by the children’s paternal grandparents. While their mother taught at a variety of schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, Robert and Jeanie grew up in Lawrence, and Robert graduated from high school in 1892. A top student in his class, he shared valedictorian honours with Elinor White, with whom he had already fallen in love.
Robert and Elinor shared a deep interest in poetry, but their continued education sent Robert to Dartmouth College and Elinor to St. Lawrence University. Meanwhile, Robert continued to labour on the poetic career he had begun in a small way during high school; he first achieved professional publication in 1894 when The Independent, a weekly literary journal, printed his poem “My Butterfly: An Elegy.” Impatient with academic routine, Frost left Dartmouth after less than a year. He and Elinor married in 1895 but found life difficult, and the young poet supported them by teaching school and farming, neither with notable success. During the next dozen years, six children were born, two of whom died early, leaving a family of one son and three daughters. Frost resumed his college education at Harvard University in 1897 but left after two years’ study there. From 1900 to 1909 the family raised poultry on a farm near Derry, New Hampshire, and for a time Frost also taught at the Pinkerton Academy in Derry. Frost became an enthusiastic botanist and acquired his poetic persona of a New England rural sage during the years he and his family spent at Derry. All this while he was writing poems, but publishing outlets showed little interest in them.
Students will read three poems by Frost
"Two Tramps in Mud Time", "After the Apple Picking" and "Mowing"
Terms: Tone, Rhythm, Rhyme scheme, Assonance, Consonance
2.Introduction:
Let's talk about the phrase:
YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW.
A. What does this mean?
Literal meaning:
Figurative Meaning:
B. Discuss apple facts:
The US is one of the world's leading apple-producing countries. Although Washington produces more apples than any other state, New England is home to many apple orchards as well. This area is well suited to growing apples because of its cold winters. While the fruit does not grow in the winter, the trees grow best in areas where the average temperature approaches or reaches freezing for at least two months every year. The trees blossom in the late spring, but apple growers do not begin harvesting fruit until late summer or early fall
3. Read the poems and analyze
4. Apply terms
5. Compare the two poems.
Discuss: Setting, Frost's style, structure, theme
6. Answer questions dealing with both poems
Worksheet: Give students a copy of Frost's poem: "Two Tramps in Mud Time"
Have students analyze the poem.
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