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.