Close Up Robert Frost Directive

Question 1

Born in

Not in ? Where most his works were written but in

Answer 1

1874
New England
Dan Francisco

Question 2

He had a ? Manhood

Staying only as semester at ? And finally in 1912 when he was ?

Answer 2

Restless and disaffected early
Harvard
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Selling farm in New Hampshire his grandfather bought him and moving with family to England

Question 3

The ? Was crucial to the way frost developed the cadences and style of his balnk verse

He stayed for two years in England where the influences of ? We’re still in the Vocab of ? He associated with like

Answer 3

English experience

Tennyson’s Ulysses and brownings my last duchess

Georgian poets: Edward Thomas as well as an intellectual pastoral stance

Question 4

Frosts blank verse line is ?

In fact as directive shows it is intensely

Answer 4

Slow distinctive and deceptively driven by a vernacular narrative tone

Styilized

Question 5

Contemporary poet who gained most from rich tradition of balnk verse was

Answer 5

Frost

Question 6

Returning from America to England in ? He set out to find an ? That allowed ? But which could also be capable of

Answer 6

1918
Idiom
Stylized dark voice to be heard
Fast and surprising narrative drama

Question 7

Blank verse also allowed frost one of the most striking first lines in the century’s poetry :

Answer 7

A rare iambic rush of monosyllables
Back out of all this now too much for us
(First line of directive)