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| Robert Frost began writing in the late 1800's when he was in high school. He continued through the beginning of the 1900's. For the most part, he was a part of the Romanticism movement. He expressed his emotions in his poems and revealed his feelings towards certain people and certain things in society. Furthermore, he resembles those authors where were a part of the Lake Poets. This is because he wrote with much reflection to nature. In the beginning of his writing career, Frost wrote "My Butterfly" and this was published in The Independent. He soon moved to England with his family. In England, there were a group of writers, now known as Lake Poets, which lived in the Lake District in England. This group of writers did not have a direct focus and did not follow any kind of literature of the time. They made up their own kind. The wrote about feelings and emotions, which made them a part of the romantic movement, but in turn compared their feelings to nature which made them Lake Poets. Frost went though many different struggles in his life. He first was not very successful in America, so he moved to England. He then moved back to America, and became successful after already becoming a success in England. Frost suffered the death of a two of his children and he expressed his sorrow through his poems. The _expression of his depressive state is apparent in "Home Burial" and this reflects the Romantic Movement. Although what was being expressed was not romantic feelings, emotions are being revealed. Hence categorizing his poems in the Romantic Movement. Frost was further a part of the Lake Poets because of the manner in which he chose to express his emotions. Although Frost did not live in the Lake District in England, he wrote similar to William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Because of the time period that Frost wrote his poems and the content of his poems, he is considered to be a part of the Romanic Movement. His way of expressing himself further makes him a part of the Lake poets. This shows how society and his own experiences influenced Frost's works. |
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