Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.

Or in-flight safety announcements. [From the August 1915 issue: Robert Frost’s “Birches,” “The Road Not Taken,” and “The Sound of Trees”] The interesting comparison, fame-wise ...

The sesquicentennial of Robert Frost, the American poet born on March ... look at the aftermath of the ice-storm in “Birches” ...

His recitations — dramatic monologues, really — of some of Frost’s most familiar works, including “The Road Not Taken,” “Away,” “Birches,” “Mending Wall,” and “Poetic ...

Frost’s approachable verse and appealing rural subjects brought him legions of admirers. His personal life was shot through with pain.

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably ... Beneath the seeming casualness of “Birches,” Plunkett intuits the stately bones of Milton’s “Lycidas.” ...

Poetry great Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco ... This poem, as well as "Birches" (1915), was published in his book ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly called The Independent. “On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in ...

Robert Frost’s poem “Hyla Brook” concludes ... that yields subtle and complex interpretations of talk-songs like “Birches” (1915) and “Nothing Gold Can Stay” (1923).