The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his wintry poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening ... a good Robert Frost poem. LIMBONG: All right. Well, can you read it for us?

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 ...

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