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Robert Frost was the celebrity of poets during his time. He struggled during the first part of his poet career to be
successful. It took him over twenty years until he finally made a true living off of being a poet. He was then America's most
favorite and beloved poet. The poems that Frost usually wrote about pertained to farms and questioning man's existence.
Although he lived after the Civil War and before man's first steps on the moon, he concentrated his poems on the traditions
of the nineteenth century. Frost's first poem that was accepted for publication was "A Boy's will" in 1913 when
he was living in London. He decided to finally move to London after he poetry was not being accepted or published in America.
Critics during Frost's time loved his honesty in his poems. When the nineteenth century ended, other poets started
writing in "free verse" which Frost refused to write in. He was quoted to say, "Writing free verse was like
playing tennis without a net." As time went on, critics began to label Frost as old fashioned. Later in his life critics
then liked the fact that he was not giving into new trends and sticking with what he was good at writing. Critics today still
love Frost's work as a poet.
During Frost's lifetime he won many different types of awards. His best achievement was from John F. Kennedy in 1961;
at this time he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. Frost really began winning awards for his work in the last fifteen
years of his life. During this time period he was awarded the Noble prize, Pulitzer Prize and the Bollingen Prize for Poetry,
which he won just days before he passed away.
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