What Makes Robert Frost's Poems So Popular

“If I had wanted you to know, I’d had told you in the poems”-Robert Frost. This is the unfortunate answer that kept popping up as I began doing my research for this paper, but thankfully after doing a lot more in depth research and a few mental breakdowns I finally started to get some actual answers. Everyone knows that Robert Frost’s poems are timeless classics that have been famous forever and will still be famous years from now. That being said, where did all of this fame come from, and what is it that makes all of his poems so popular? Here is the answer. Robert Frost’s poems became so successful simply because he wrote about rural life, life events, and ordinary people and somehow managed to make them all sound interesting. These three topic ideas are actually the backbones of three completely different, yet very successful, poems written by Robert Frost. The three poems that were inspired by these ideas are “Mending Wall,” ”The Road Not Taken,” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Oddly enough, the inspiration for “Mending Wall” came before World War 1 when Frost and his family were living in New England, (Galens, 2002). Frost heard the infamous quote “Good fences make good neighbors” from his
Like most of Frost’s poems, this poem adopts the tone of a simple New England farmer contemplating an everyday sight, (History, 2009). I am sure this poem had an incredible story behind it very similar to the other two poems that I have discussed throughout this paper. This poem, being my most favorite written by Frost, unfortunately had no specific answer as to why it was written. I mean I understand that Frost did not want to give away all of his reasons and secrets as to why he wrote poetry for personal reasons, but he should have known that people would wonder in the future. I wonder if it is because he himself did not expect to become such a success from his