Sometimes things live up to their name. Take Robert Frost. The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his wintry poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING ...

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 ...

Show more A hundred years since he wrote it, the same basic truths still apply to the poem that Robert Frost knew almost immediately would be his ‘best bid for remembrance’. Stopping By Woods ...

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

Robert Frost, who turned 20 in 1894 ... “The Road Not Taken,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”—these aren’t really poems anymore. Decades of mass exposure have done something ...