JAWAHAR NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA

SONIKPUR BARABANKI

EN G L I S H PROJECT
Robert Frost(A Roadside Stand)

ROLL NO:
TH

CLASS:- 12 SCIENCE
SESSION:- 2023-24

GUIDED BY: SUBMITTED BY:

MRS. SAVITA YADAV SAURABH KUMAR
(PGT-ENGLISH) (12-SCIENCE)
 CONTENTS
❖ Certificate

❖ Acknowledgment

❖ Who was Robert Frost?

❖ Childhood & Early Life

❖ Career

❖ Family & Personal Life

❖ Robert Frost(A Roadside Stand)

❖ Bibliography
 Certificate
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This is to certify that Saurabh Kumar Student

of class 12th has successfully completed the
research on the below mentioned project under
the guidance of Mrs. Savita Yadav(sub teacher)
during the year of 2023-24 in partial fulfillment
of English practical examination conducted by
JNV Barabanki.

Regards,

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 Acknowledgement
In the accomplishment of this project
successfully, Many people have best owned upon
me their blessings and the heart pledge support,
this time I am utilizing to thank all the people
who have been concerned with this project.

Primarily I would like thank god for being able to

complete this project with success. Then I would
like to thank my principal Mr. V.K Yadav sir and
my English teacher Mrs. Savita Yadav ma’am
whose valuable guidance has been the ones that
helped me patch this project and make it full
proof success, his suggestions and instruction has
served as the major contribution towards the
completion of this project.

Then I would like to thank my parents who have

helped me with their valuable suggestions and
guidance has been very helpful in various phases
of the completion of the project.
Saurabh Kumar
Class 12 (Science)
Robert Frost(A Roadside Stand)

Who was Robert Frost?

Robert Lee Frost was an American poet best known for his vivid poems
Describing rural life in England. He had an admirable command of
Colloquial speech and wrote descriptive poems about ordinary people
Going about their lives with a philosophical undertone. He was a much-
Celebrated literary figure with several awards and honors to his name.
He Is the only poet so far to receive four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. The
Son of a journalist, he started writing poems as a school student. As a
Young man, he worked in several jobs but found no satisfaction. He
Realized poetry was his true calling and became a full-time poet. It did
not Take him long to establish himself successfully in his literary career.
Later On, he also took up teaching. He was considered a brilliant teacher
and Held positions at several prestigious institutions, including Amherst
College and the University of Michigan. As a poet, he was much
Appreciated for the honesty in his tone and his skills at depicting rural life
And the lives of ordinary people in a clear, realistic manner. He received
The Congressional Gold Medal and the Edward MacDowell Medal for his
Contribution to the arts.
Childhood & Early Life
➢ Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco,
California, US, to Wiliam Prescott Frost, Jr. and His wife, Isabelle
Moodie. His father, a journalist, was the Descendant of an English
immigrant, while his mother was A Scottish immigrant. Robert had
a younger sister, Jeanie.
➢ His father died of tuberculosis when Robert was 11 years Old. His
mother took the two children to Lawrence, Massachusetts, where
they were taken in by Robert’s Paternal grandparents. His mother
earned a living by Teaching in different schools in New Hampshire
and Massachusetts.
➢ Robert was a good student and excelled in his studies. He Also
started writing poetry as a schoolboy. He graduated From high
school in 1892 as a top student in his class. He Shared valedictorian
honors with Elinor White, a girl he was In love with.
➢ He joined Dartmouth College but attended classes for only A couple
of months during which he was accepted into the Theta Delta Chi
fraternity.

Career

❖ After quitting college, Robert Frost began a teaching Career, helping

his mother at work. He also took up a series Of odd jobs like
delivering newspapers and working in a carbon arc lamps factory.
❖ He wasn’t satisfied with any of the jobs he dabbled in and Realized
that poetry was his true calling. His poem My Butterfly. An Elegy
 was published in the November 8, 1894, Edition of the New York
Independent. He was paid $15 for it.

❖ From 1897 to 1899, Robert Frost attended Harvard University but

didn’t stay to complete his degree; he had to Quit owing to health
issues. His grandfather had purchased A farm for him and his wife
in Derry, New Hampshire. The Couple moved there and Frost
worked on the farm for Several years while continuing to write
poetry.
❖ He wasn’t successful at farming. With a growing family to Feed, he
returned to the field of education and took up a Position as an
English teacher at New Hampshire’s Pinkerton Academy in 1906. He
worked there for five years.
❖ He moved to Great Britain with his family in 1912. His first Book of
poetry, A Boy’s Will, was published in 1913 and the Next volume,
North of Boston, was out the following year.
❖ The poems he wrote in England were deeply influenced by The rural
life of ordinary folks. His works also had a Philosophical undertone
and talked about the harsh realities Of village life. By 1915, he had
managed to become a Popular poet with his poignant literary
works.
❖ Robert Frost returned to America in 1915 when World War I was
going on. He was already a popular poet by then. He Purchased a
farm in New Hampshire and built a successful Career composing
poetry and teaching. For several years, He taught English at
Amherst College in Massachusetts.
❖ He gained much fame and success as a poet in the ensuing Years.
His best-known books released in the following Decades were New
Hampshire (1923), A Further Range (1936), Steeple Bush (1947),
 and In the Clearing (1962). He also served as a consultant in poetry
to The Library of Congress from 1958 to 1959.
❖ Besides being an exceptional poet, Robert Frost was also
Phenomenal as a teacher. For four decades, starting from The early
1920s, he spent numerous summers and falls.Teaching at the Bread
Loaf School of English of Middlebury college.
❖ He took up a fellowship teaching post at the University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, in 1921. He stayed there until 1927 And returmed to
Amherst.
❖ He owned several properties, including a plot in South Miami,
Florida, and a house on Brewster Street in cambridge,
Massachusetts.

Major Works
❖ Robet Frost’s volume of poetry New Hampshire is counted Amongst
his most important works. The book contained Poems, such as
Nothing Gold Can Stay, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, and
Fire and lce, and won the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
❖ His poem collection A Further Range is another one of his Major
works that earned a Pulitzer Prize. It was dedicated To his wife and
divided into six parts. It contained poems Including The Gold
Hesperidee, In Time of Cloudburst, A Roadside Stand, and
Departmental.

Family & Personal Life

❖ Robert Frost fell in love with a girl named Elinor Miriam White while
still in school. She was an ambitious young Woman who inspired
many of his poems.
❖ He was determined to marry her even though she didn’t Accept the
first time he proposed. She accepted when he Proposed a second
time, and they were married on December 19, 1895.
❖ The couple had six children, out of who two died very Young. While
four of his children lived to adulthood, two of them predeceased
their father. Elinor, who Frost loved very Deeply, developed breast
cancer and died in 1938.
❖ Robert Frost liveda long life and died on January 29, 1963, Due to
complications from prostate surgery. He was 88.
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