Favourite poet

My favourte poet is Robert Frost and in this post, I shall be explaining why and also provide some biographical information about him, including the events which affected his style of writing poetry.

Robert Frost (March 26, 1874(1874-03-26) - January 29, 1963) was born in San Francisco, California and he was a student at Harvard university. He had to drop out of school before he was able to obtain a formal degree due to ill health. He married Elinor Miriam White (1872-1938) , one of his schoolmates at Harvard, in 1895 and had six children.
Throughout his life, he experienced many tragedies, which included the death of his father when he was 11 years old and the deaths of two of his children and his wife. These memories filled with grief were reflected in some details of his works sometimes. Home Burial, which is one of his more notable works, described how a couple tries to cope with the death of their child, with the grief and frustration of not being able to come to terms with each other, eventually resulting in their parting. His emotions of losing his own child were largely depicted in the poem and bear many similarities to the feelings of the couple.
He also had a love for nature and a passion for describing the rural landscape of New England vividly. An example of such a poem was Going for Water, which describes how two children went to fetch water at a brook and the magnificence of the stream under the moonlight.
In my opinion, a large part of his poems chronicle the different turning points in his life, also his perception towards life itself. Quoting Frost, "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on". Although one, when reading his poems, may not immediately see it, proper inference-drawing would make the message conceived through his poems clear. The most obvious being the one in the poem The Road Not Taken. It talks about decision-making in life and how things cannot be undone once a choice is made ("Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back").
Here are the three poems which I have randomly chosen, out of all the ones which he has written. I did not include the poem itself, as I think that it is unnecessary for me to do so. You can look them up on Google if you are really interested.
The Road Not Taken: To be really honest, this is the poem which I like best so far. The interpretation is mentioned above so I will not repeat myself.
Fire and Ice: This poem examines how the world will end in, whether in fire, which represents desire, or ice, which represents hate.
Nothing Gold Can Stay: This poem is trying to tell the readers that there is nothing in the world that will will remain untarnished forever, which is what the title implies ("...Her hardest hue to hold...But only so an hour...Nothing gold can stay").

Sources:
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/192
http://www.online-literature.com/frost/
(1874-03-26)