Robert Frost Trivia

1. In 'Flower-Gathering' the narrator states, "I left you in the _____". What time of the day did the narrator leave?

From Quiz Starting Out on a Frosty Trail

Answer: morning

"I left you in the morning, And in the morning glow You walked a way beside me To make me sad to go." 'Flower-Gathering' was first published in 1913 in Frost's first book 'A Boy's Will'. This collection of his poetry was published in London, England.

From Quiz Mending Wall

Answer: Dymock, Gloucestershire

In 1912 Robert Frost moved to England to concentrate on writing full-time. It was there that he wrote the poem "Mending Wall", which was published in 1914 by the British publishers David Nutt and Company, the second of his books to be published there before an American publisher accepted his work. The Frost family lived in all four of these places, as well as a number of others around New England (and, for some time, in Ann Arbor, Michigan).

From Quiz Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Answer: Man

"Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though" This poem has a typical a-a-b-a rhyme. To hear this, repeat the first four line's last words: know, though, here and snow. This rhyming scheme is called iambic tetrameter.

From Quiz Great Robert Frost Poems

Answer: Sleep

The narrator mentions sleep several times throughout the poem, and most readers feel that Frost uses sleep as a metaphor for death.

From Quiz Robert Frost Poetry

Answer: California

Frost was actually born in California. He did wind up moving to Lawrence, Massachusetts when he was 11.

From Quiz Robert Frost

Answer: spider

The answer can be found in the first line of the poem: "I found a dimpled spider, fat and white," FYI: Robert Frost was born in 1874 in San Francisco, California.

From Quiz "The Death of the Hired Man"--by Robert Frost

Answer: iambic pentameter

Though Robert Frost didn't always write in rhyme, he always wrote with some type of technical challenge. On free verse, Frost once said "I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down."

From Quiz "The Witch Of Coos"

Answer: a witch and her son

Pretty much a "gimme" considering the title! Coos, by the way, is a New Hampshire county.

From Quiz Robert Frost: American Poet

Answer: yellow

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood..." Possibly a birch forest in New Hampshire in the autumn when the leaves of birch trees (the primary deciduous tree in southern New Hampshire) turn yellow. The poem was listed first in his "Mountain Interval" collection, published in 1916. It dealt with making choices and realizing one may not have a chance to reprise them.

From Quiz The Poetry of Robert Frost

Answer: wall

This is the opening line of "Mending Wall", which continues: "Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast." The poem uses the refrain "good fences make good neighbors" but questions whether walls close off friendship among neighbors: "Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it Where there are cows? But here there are no cows. Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense." "Mending Wall" was the first of the poems in Frost's "North of Boston" collection, which was published in 1914.

From Quiz Starting Out on a Frosty Trail

Answer: October

"O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all." 'October' was also part of the collection in 'A Boy's Will' (1913), published when Frost was thirty-nine years old. It was after this collection of poetry was published that Frost became well known, even though he had had his first poem published when he was nineteen.

From Quiz Mending Wall

Answer: "North of Boston"

These were Robert Frost's first four collections of poetry. "North of Boston" (1914 in England; 1915 in USA) was the second to be published, although the American publishers released it a few months before "A Boy's Will" (1913 in England; 1915 in USA). "New Hampshire" (1923), Frost's fourth book of poems, was the one for which he received the first of four Pulitzer Prizes. It includes the oft-quoted "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening", another pastoral incident used to evoke larger issues.

From Quiz Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Answer: The village

"Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though." This poem is one of Frost's more popular poems, and was published in 1923 in "New Hampshire." "New Hampshire" was a Pulitzer Prize winning book containing other popular poems, such are "Fire and Ice" and "Nothing Gold Can Stay."

From Quiz Great Robert Frost Poems

Answer: As big as the end of your thumb

Many of Frost's poems contained vivid imagery of nature, both benevolent and violent.

From Quiz Robert Frost Poetry

Answer: Out, Out

This is easily one of my favorite Frost poems. The personification of the chainsaw in this poem is chilling.

From Quiz Robert Frost

Answer: apple

The answer can be found in the 24th line of the poem: "He is all pine and I am apple orchard." FYI: He made his living as a farmer who would write into the late hours of the night.

From Quiz "The Death of the Hired Man"--by Robert Frost

Answer: On tip-toe

"Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table Waiting for Warren. When she heard his step, She ran on tip-toe down the darkened passage To meet him in the doorway with the news And put him on his guard."

From Quiz "The Witch Of Coos"

Answer: make a table kick like a mule

The son says she can "make a common table rear and kick with two legs like an army mule."

From Quiz Robert Frost: American Poet

Answer: telescope

"The Star-Splitter" is an odd poem; the narrator apparently is ready to forgive thieves operating in his town or his neighbor burning down his own house. The narrator seems to have rationalized the arson by deciding that there was little difference between a farm being lost to fire or the auctioneer's gavel. The neighbor used the insurance money to buy an expensive telescope and coaxed the narrator to look through it. They named it the Star-Splitter "Because it didn't do a thing but split a star in two or three..." (I have no idea what that means.)

From Quiz Starting Out on a Frosty Trail

Answer: Picking apples

"My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough." 'After Apple-Picking' was published in the second book, 'North of Boston' (1914). The apples are thought to be a metaphor for opportunities, when the narrator is considering his life that has passed.

From Quiz Mending Wall

Answer: blank verse

Blank verse is unrhymed (usually iambic) pentameter. This poem is unrhymed pentameter, although Frost varies the feet widely from the rhythmic 'da DA' of the iamb. This allows him to reflect the patterns of speech, action and thought being described, while periodically returning us to the comforting familiarity of the iamb. This playful approach to the form reflects the narrator's urge to play with ideas, and to challenge easy assumptions.

From Quiz Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Answer: To see the woods fill up with snow

"He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow." John T. Ogilvie says this about this poem: "What appears to be "simple" is shown to be not really simple, what appears to be innocent not really innocent.... The poet is fascinated and lulled by the empty wastes of white and black. The repetition of "sleep" in the final two lines suggests that he may succumb to the influences that are at work. There is no reason to suppose that these influences are benignant. It is, after all, "the darkest evening of the year," and the poet is alone "between the woods and frozen lake." His one bond with the security and warmth of the "outer" world, the "little horse" who wants to be about his errand, is an unsure one. The ascription of "lovely" to this scene of desolate woods, effacing snow, and black night complicates rather than alleviates the mood when we consider how pervasive are the connotations of dangerous isolation and menacing death." From "From Woods to Stars: A Pattern of Imagery in Robert Frost's Poetry." South Atlantic Quarterly. Winter 1959.

From Quiz Great Robert Frost Poems

Answer: Spring

The narrator doesn't understand why nature hates the wall, but every spring, he and his neighbor repair the fence between them once again.

From Quiz Robert Frost Poetry

Answer: The Gift Outright

"The Gift Outright" is a poem about colonial times.

From Quiz Robert Frost

Answer: her child's

In the 32nd line: "But the child's mound----" FYI: Frost became known as the poet of New England.

From Quiz "The Death of the Hired Man"--by Robert Frost

Answer: At the last hay time

Warren speaking: " 'But I'll not have the fellow back,' he said. 'I told him so last haying, didn't I? "If he left then," I said, "that ended it." ' "

From Quiz "The Witch Of Coos"

Answer: Ralle the Sioux Control

Ralle was an Indian Agent watching over the Sioux tribe. The great Houdini exposed fraudulent mediums, while Doyle was a devout Spiritualist. Clarence is the angel from "It's A Wonderful Life".

From Quiz Robert Frost: American Poet

Answer: a sense of kinship

Frost wrote several poems about trees or used them as part of a story but they were usually just a prop to tell a human's tale. But in this poem he felt a kinship with the tree; he had watched the tree through his window over the years and the tree had watched him. He saw a likeness between them in that the tree was concerned with its own head being affected by the weather and the narrator being concerned with the 'weather' inside his own head. The tree in question was a maple tree that Frost saw every day from his bedroom window; it sat on the south lawn of his farm in Derry, New Hampshire. Years after Frost died that tree did too (struck by lightning I believe); a new tree has been planted there to replace it.

From Quiz The Poetry of Robert Frost

Answer: birches

These are the opening lines of "Birches", which was first published in the "Atlantic Monthly" and later included in Robert Frost's 1916 collection "Mountain Interval". The 59-line poem concludes: "I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches."

From Quiz Starting Out on a Frosty Trail

Answer: Two

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;" 'The Road Not Taken' was published in 'Mountain Interval'(1916) after Frost's return to America. The poem explores choices that are made, literally and figuratively.

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