Robert Frost Biography (1874 - 1963) Robert Frost (1874-1963) has been the most widely read American poet of this century. Though on the surface his poems seem to be simple, direct and easy-to-understand, they are complex, involved and not-so- easy to comprehend at the deeper level. The surface clarity of his poems invariably conceals their hidden complexity. A New England oonature poet, Frost, ironically, was discovered in England when two of his first collections of poems A Boy's Will (1912) and North of Boston (1914) were published there. Though he is a nature poet, he is different from Wordsworth in that nature merely provides Frost with situations, images and metaphors which he sometimes uses symbolically. What gives Frost's nature poems their strength is the combination of vivid descriptive realism and a meditative quality, supported by his wit and wry humour, by which he drives home truths that are innate and hidden in the human heart. However, to capture their multip