“The Gift Outright”
Robert Frost
Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, where his father, William Prescott Frost Jr., and his mother, Isabelle Moodie, had moved from Pennsylvania shortly after marrying. After the death of his father from tuberculosis when Frost was eleven years old, he moved with his mother and sister, Jeanie, who was two years younger, to Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Robert Frost
Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, where his father, William Prescott Frost Jr., and his mother, Isabelle Moodie, had moved from Pennsylvania shortly after marrying. After the death of his father from tuberculosis when Frost was eleven years old, he moved with his mother and sister, Jeanie, who was two years younger, to Lawrence, Massachusetts.
About his works.
“Fire
and Ice”
“The Gift Outright”
“Design”
“Mending wall”
“Home Burial”
About his Lyrics.
In
the lyric of “A Boy’s Will”, representing the long thoughts of the artist as a
young man, the stanzaic form follows the conventions of the couplet, the
quatrain, the sonnet and the ballad.
Frost poet of nature and
Theme of Nature
‘The
Gift of Outright’ The subject of this poem is American
history. It is a statement about the history and future of the United State of
America.
The Gift Outright” serves as
history, narrative, metaphor, and political statement. Its subject matter—the
origins and future of the United States of America—makes it a logical choice
for his presentation at President Kennedy’s inauguration. It serves as both a
reminder of the past and a call to action for the future.
Frost begins with no
proper nouns to orient readers to his subject matter; he draws them in by his
use of pronouns—the corporate and individual meanings of “we” and the land as
“she.” He refers to the “hundred years” preceding the designation as “her
people.”
He next refers to Massachusetts and Virginia,
setting his geographical location, and with “we werestill colonials” he sets
the time. The British colonized what became the United States of America, and
the “we” of the poem in turn colonized the “her,” the land itself, by
inhabiting it without the responsibilities of possession.
Conclusion.
His another poem ‘Home Burial’ He uses
ironic and paradox style. it is a dialogue between husband and wife Some of his
best lyrics are….
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