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Robert Frost, the poet of ‘Fire and Ice’ is one of the, celebrated literary figure.

A twentieth century poet


who deals realistically with his world through man and nature. Although most of his poems are filled
with nature images, his real subject is humanity. Frost’s first book was published around the age of 40,
but he would go on to win a record four Pulitzer Prizes and become the most famous poet of his time,
before his death at the age of 88.

He once had said “Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, ‘grace’ metaphors, and goes on
to the profoundest thinking.

The unique form of Frost’s nature poetry represents his way of presenting man and nature along the
usual lines of a contemporary poet.

To Frost, nature may be a symbol of man’s relation to the world, but the most important aspect in his
poetry remains his strong underlying message about man.

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