Robert Frost was a poet. He wrote many well-known poems, but what was it that made him different from any poet off the streets. Robert Frost, like many poets, wrote about life, but what made him different was that he wrote it in forms of nature, a long extended metaphor. Britannica stated, “Frost demonstrated an enviable versatility of theme, but he most commonly investigated human contacts with the natural world in small encounters that serve as metaphors for larger aspects of the human condition” (Frost, Robert). Although Frost wrote poems about nature, he did not glorify nature. He compared his life with the life of a simple piece of nature, the isolation, harshness and the pain its feel (Robert Frost Biography – Life, Family, Children, Story, Death, Wife, School, Mother, Young). He endured the same pain.

 Frost’s voice consists of overall simplicity, but if analyzed deeper it will contain a darker meaning and symbolism. Development of such voice was influenced by the tragedies that occurred in his life, “There his first son soon died. In 1906 Frost was stricken with pneumonia (a disease that causes inflammation of the lungs) and almost died. A year later his fourth daughter died. This grief and suffering, as well as lesser frustrations in his personal and business life, turned Frost more and more to poetry” (Robert Frost Biography – Life, Family, Children, Story, Death, Wife, School, Mother, Young). One of his famous poems was called, “Out, Out” and it was based on an account that Robert Frost had confronted. His neighbor’s son, Raymond Fitzgerald worked at a sawmill, similar to the boy in the poem. He later accidentally injured himself and lost his hand in a buzz saw. He bled until he went into shock and died of a heart failure (Out, Out– by Robert Frost at Old Poetry).

 If Frost hadn’t stayed in New England, the imagery and the settings in his poems would be different. The writing is about how New England is and how much he hates it. If he lived in the desert he wouldn’t write about snow to describe his life. “Frost was often able to endow his rural imagery with a larger symbolic or metaphysical significance, and his best poems transcend the immediate realities of their subject matter to illuminate the unique blend of tragic endurance, stoicism, and tenacious affirmation that marked his outlook on life” (Frost, Robert). Robert Frost was a teacher at many schools. One of his schools, Amherst College was the most significant educational alliance he formed (Pritchard). He encouraged his students to account the human voice in their writings. Robert Frost is different from a poet off the streets and the ability to acknowledge that is invaluable.