OMKAR ENGLISH PROJECT ON ROBERT FROSR.pptx

LIFE

1. PRESENTED BY ~ NAME – OMKAR MAKAR CLASS – X SECTION – A ADMISSION NO. – 5153118 SUBJECT - ENGLISH

2. TOPIC – ROBERT FROST

3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to my respected subject teacher, Sayantika Dutta ma’am as well as our honourable principal Sarvan Tiwari Sir who gave me the golden opportunity to do this wonderful project on the well known nature lover poet, ROBERT FROST which also helped me in doing a lot of Research and I came to know about so many facts on this wonderful personality. I would also like to express my thanks to my parents for their wonderful support behind my successful completion of the project within the prescribed time. Thanks again to all who helped me.  

4. INTRODUCTION Poetry is a form of literature  that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or an emotional response. Nature poetry is a form of writing that focuses primarily on themes, ideas, emotions, situations, or images that have to do with nature. The extreme fascination and acute love to the nature makes a great poet of nature. Robert Frost is a twentieth century poet who deals realistically with his world through man and nature. His personality is not only described as a nature poet, but also he writes for “humanity”. In fact Frost admitted ,“I had only three or four pure nature poems. The rest were human portraits with a nature setting."

5. RECOGNIZING THE POET Robert Lee Frost  (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an  American Poet, born to journalist William Prescott Frost, Jr., and Isabelle Moodie in San Francisco, California. Robert Lee Frost attended Lawrence High School and graduated in 1892 as a valedictorian poet. Right after graduation, he attended Dartmouth College, where he became a member of  Theta Delta Chi Fraternity . Robert Lee Frost married Elinor White in 1895, with whom he shared his valedictorian honours. Frost’s writing skill lies in the fact that he is able to effectively convey the settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.  He is the only poet to receive four PULITZER Prizes for Poetry. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his poetic works. He became one of America's rare "public literary figures, almost an artistic institution." and known as ”Poet Laureate of Vermont”.

6. MAJOR WORKS OF THE POET Robert Frost added more colours to the world of literature. his ideas about social outcasts and love for nature are reflected well in his works. The recurring themes in most of his poems are love, death,  beauty, man and the natural world, and struggle. Robert Frost used literary devices that turned to visual and sensual, imagery, metaphors, similies and symbolism to create a unique style. Continuing to write about New England, he had two books published,  A Boy’s Will  (1913) and   North of Boston  (1914 ) ,  which established him as a celebrated literary figure . In 1924, he won the first of four  PULITZER PRIZES for the book   New Hampshire: Poem with Notes and Grace Notes   He won additional Pulitzers for   Collected poems in 1931 A Further Range  in 1937, and  A Witness Tree   in 1943 His popular poems include: “After Apple-Picking”, “Mending Wall”, “ BIRCHES ”, “ Out-Out ”, “ FIRE AND ICE ”,  NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY ” and “ STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING ”, “ HOME BURIAL ”, and so on.

7. MAJOR WORKS OF THE POET Best Plays and Prose Books include : “ A Way Out: A One-Act play“, “A Masque Of Reason “, “A Masque of Mercy”,  Famous Quotes *“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.”(The Road Not Taken,) *“Some say the earth will end in fire, Some say in ice.” (Fire and Ice)   Frost has had a significant influence on a diverse range of writers and poets. His works are widely anthologized and have successfully brought into light the concept of soothing nature and its role in man’s life. List of Robert Frost well familiar Books also include :- The Letters of Robert Frost The Poetry of Robert Frost The Road Not Taken and Other Poems  Poetry For Young People The Oxford History of Poland – Luthania 101 Great American Poems An Annual Of New Poetry

8. MENTION OF POEMS FROM THE SYLLABUS DUST OF SNOW FIRE AND ICE BY ROBERT FROST

9. DUST OF SNOW ~ ROBERT FROST SUMMARY • The author was having a terrible day and was in a bad mood. He was standing near a hemlock tree which was poisonous. • A crow which must have perched upon the snow laden hemlock tree happened to sprinkle some snow dust on him. • The falling of the snow on his head lifted his mood instantly and his sad and depressive mood changed into an elated one due to the crow and the hemlock tree THEME • Nature has healing and curing power. • Small events in a person’s life can have a larger significance. • One should hope for the best even in the worst situations.     .  

10. DUST OF SNOW ANALYSIS OF THE POEM • The poem ‘Dust of Snow’ by Robert Frost is a simple and short poem, yet with a deeper and larger meaning. The poet explains how an act as petty or simple as experiencing snow on one’s body can brighten one’s day. The two agents of nature, the hemlock tree and the crow are signifiers of sadness and gloom. • The crow, a black, dark creature, has an evil foreboding and is a symbol of fear, doom and death. • The poet has also chosen hemlock tree ,associated with poison and death as hemlock was the poison used to kill the great philosopher Socrates. • However, the poet has cleverly used these symbols or bad omens to signify that inauspicious things can bring joy and happiness, too. • Thus the poem teaches us a lesson that we must not take things for granted but should be open and accept whichever way nature chooses to bless us.

11. SUMMARY • Robert Frost’s poem ‘Fire and Ice’ expresses the profound idea of two groups who have their own possible explanation that the world would end in either of the two ways, by fire or by ice. • Both fire (DESIRE) as well as ice (HATRED) are just as competent in bringing the world to a fateful end. • The poet believes personally that ‘fiery desires’ are capable of bringing human beings on the verge of destruction. • Then he thinks that if the world were to end twice, then ‘icy hatred’ would be just as capable of ruining humans, though slowly but steadily. FIRE ICE AND THEME • Nothing in the world is eternal. Everything will be consumed either by fire of desire or by ice of hatred. • Unbridled passions and desires can cause the end of the world. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- • Even hatred born out of cold and icy reasons is sufficient to cause destruction and end the world ~ ROBERT FROST

12. FIRE ICE AND ANALYSIS OF THE POEM ‘ Fire and Ice’ is one of the most popular and symbolic poems of Robert Frost. • In this poem, Frost refers to two predictions of how the world would end. • It discusses the end of the world, as a result of fire or ice. The poet has likened the elemental force of fire with the emotion of desire and of ice with hatred. • The poem, very artistically, underpins the philosophy that if we don’t control our emotions and let them rule us then they would bring the world to a catastrophic end. . • The speaker’s experience of desire and hatred has taught him that emotions like desire and lust have power to bring the world to a fiery end. But he also knows that colder emotions like hatred also have great destructive power of making the world freeze to its end

13. CONCLUSION It is evident that the works of Robert Frost are unique and has hence drawn attention of a significant number of people due to their content. To many he is a source of inspiration. Although the writings and poems have not been without critics, it is clear that they have attracted a significant readership and most of them adore his works as they draw comfort in the meaning they deduce from the work especially poetry. This is because Frost was able to incorporate almost every aspect that happens in our day to day lives more especially in the rural setting. Despite the comlexity of his poems his implied message is rather simple. Frost clarified human's eagerness to finding a meaning to life and an essential background and reason to events, regardless of how small and insignificant they might be. 

14. BIBLIOGRAPHY https://www.adequatedeal.com/blog/best-robert-frost-books/ (Acquired on May 14, 2021) https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2013/0410/Robert-Frost-his-10-favorite-books-of-all-time (Acquired on May 14, 2021 ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost (Acquired on May 14, 2021) https://www.robertfrost.org/biography.jsp (Acquired on May 15, 2021) National Council of Educational Research and Training (2018): “FIRST FLIGHT”, 13 TH Edition, New Delhi, INDIA https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-frost (Acquired on May 16, 2021) https://literarydevices.net/robert-frost/ (Acquired on May 16, 2021) https://www.successcds.net/learn-english/class-10/fire-and-ice.html (Acquired on May 17, 2021) https://www.successcds.net/learn-english/class-10/dust-of-snow.html ( Acquired on May 18, 2021)