USA HISTORY

SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732

FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Robert Frost is a famous poet who wrote about life and times in ____
A
Jamestown
B
Plymouth
C
New Jersey
D
New England
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Biographically, he was a New Englander not by birth but by adoption-or rather readoption: the first canonical writer to return from the New England diaspora to his parental region and claim it as his literary home. By the same token, artistically, Frost’s tastes were cosmopolitan, not strictly regional.

Detailed explanation-2: -Robert Frost was an American poet and winner of four Pulitzer Prizes. Famous works include “Fire and Ice, ” “Mending Wall, ” “Birches, ” “Out Out, ” “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and “Home Burial.” His 1916 poem, “The Road Not Taken, ” is often read at graduation ceremonies across the United States.

Detailed explanation-3: -On November 8, 1894, a poem by Robert Lee Frost, then a 20-year-old grammar school teacher in Salem, New Hampshire, appeared on the front page of the New York newspaper The Independent. The poem, titled “My Butterfly: An Elegy, ” was the first poem Frost ever sold, and his first professionally published poem.

Detailed explanation-4: -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Emily Dickinson. Robert Frost. Those names give you some idea of the enormous contribution New England poets have made to shaping American poetry.

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