Robert Frost is a well-known American poet born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874. Robert's father, William Prescott Frost Jr., a Harvard-educated man, who decides to bring his wife and children to California to pursue a dream in politics and journalism (Kerly). Robert's father died of tuberculosis in 1885. Shortly after his father's death, Robert and his mother, Isabelle, moved to Derry, New Hampshire where Frost and his family lived in a barn from 1900 to 1909 (Kerly). Robert graduated as class poet and co-valedictorian from Lawrence High School in Massachusetts. He then attended Dartmouth University for a semester but dropped out to take classes at Harvard University but did not graduate (Kerly). After reading Robert's poems, one can consider that his writing style is far from simple, his literature being full of symbolic meanings, numerous images and unique writing patterns that many understand and relate to easily. As a result, he received numerous awards. Several of his books of verse have won a Pulitzer Prize: New Hampshire: A Poem With Notes and Grace Notes; A wider range; A witness tree; and collected poems. Amy Lowell, an American poet and critic to whom Frost turned for support and favor early in his career,2 called him "one of the most intuitive poets" of the era3 and noted that " [he] sees many things,… both in the hearts of people and in the qualities of the scenes. (March) Robert Frost is popular because of his ability to capture the imagination and consciousness in his poetry (Michael) There are many poems that Frost wrote that express this, such as: Range-Finding, A Cliff Dwelling and The Road Not Taken, is considered one of his most symbolic poems. The two paths in the cry...... middle of paper......wice. ': Robert Frost and the Aesthetics of Revelation. 'Apocalypse' in Bloom, Harold, ed. Robert Frost, new edition, Bloom's Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House Publishing, 2010. Bloom Literature, Inc. Web. 'Assorted Characters.'" Frost and the Book of Nature (University of Tennessee Press, 1993): pp. 1-20, 199-200. Cited as "Assorted Characters" in Bloom, Harold, ed. Robert Frost, new edition , Bloom's Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House Publishing, 2010. Bloom Literature, Inc. Web May 1, 2014 William Stafford, “The Terror in Robert Frost,” New York Times, August 18, 1974, http: //www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/25/specials/frost-terror.html, accessed June 16 2009.