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Literature Questions on Robert Frost | Life and Works

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Robert Frost Questions

We have penned down important questions about Robert Frost’s life and Works that will help you to prepare English Literature and English poetry.

Q1: When was Robert Frost born?

Answer: Frost was born on March 26, 1874.

Q2: Where Robert Frost was born?

Answer: Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, where he spent his first eleven years.

Q3: What is the name of Robert Frost’s father and what was his profession?

Answer: Frost’s father’s name was William Prescott Frost who was a teacher and later became an editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin.

Q4: What is the name of Frost’s wife?

Answer: Frost’s wife’s name was Elinor White who developed breast cancer in 1937 and died of heart failure in 1938. They both had a love marriage.

Q5: Who called Frost “the subtlest and saddest of poets”?

Answer: Randell Jarrell in his essay The Other Frost evaluated Frost and called her “the subtlest and saddest of poets”.

Q6: What are the one common themes that can be seen in Robert Frost’s work?

Answer: He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England.

Q7: In what country did Frost’s work first become famous?

Answer: England

Q8: In the poem Home Burial, how many headstones in the family graveyard are visible from the window?

Answer: Four

Q9: In the poem “Home Burial“, whose death is the wife mourning?

Answer: Her Child’s

Q10: Which Robert Frost poem is not a sonnet?

Answer: Stooping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Q11: What does the horse think is ‘queer’ in “Stopping By Woods on A Snowy Evening”?

Answer: Stopping without being close to a farmhouse

Q12: Why does the narrator stop by the woods in “Stopping By Woods on A Snowy Evening?

Answer: To see woods fill up with snow

Q13: Why does the little horse give harness bells a shake in “Stopping By Woods on A Snowy Evening?

Answer: To ask if there is some mistake to stop.

Q14: In the poem “Mending Wall“, what kind of trees did the narrator have?

Answer: Apple trees

Q15: In the poem “Mending Wall“, what is said to make “good neighbours”?

Answer: Good Fences

Q16: What is the name of Frost’s poem, whose title originally came from a line in Shakespeare’s play “Macbeth“?

Answer: Out, Out

Q17: What is one theme in much of Frost’s poetry?

Answer: Death

Q18: In the poem ” An Old Man’s Winter Night“. what disturbed the old man while he was sleeping?

Answer: A Log Shifting

Q19: In the poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, what is the biblical place that is mentioned?

Answer: Eden

Q20: In the poem “The Silken Tent“, what is the central pole made of?

Answer: cedar

Q21: In the poem “The Road Not Taken”, what is the colour of the wood?

Answer: Yellow

Q22: The poem “Wild Grapes” is about?

Answer: Birch

Q23: According to the poem “Mending Wall“, what is said to make good neighbours?

Answer: Good Fences make good neighbours.

Q24: What is the name of mother in “Home Burial“?

Answer: The mother name is Amy.

Q25: What is the literary form of the poem “Mending Walls“?

Answer: Blank Verse

Q26: When did the poem “Mending Wall” publish?

Answer: The poem “Mending Wall” was published in the second collection of Frost poetry in 1914.

Q27: When was the poem “Stopping by Woods on Snowy Evening” written?

Answer: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening was written in 1922 and published in 1923 in Frost’s New Hampshire volume.

Q28: When was the poem “The Road Not Taken” published?

Answer: “The Road Not Taken” was published in 1916 as the first poem in the collection of Mountain Interval.

Q29: When and where did Robert Frost die?

Answer: Frost died on January 29, 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Q30: What are the notable awards that Frost is awarded?

Answer:  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and he won this prize four times from 1924 to 1943.

After memorizing the answers, give the test below:

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