Robert Frost was born in California but later moved with his family to New England when he was eleven due to the death of his father. Robert Frost then went on to study at Harvard and Dartmouth University, which were Ivy League schools during his early adulthood. In New Hampshire he began working as a farmer, while also publishing local newspapers and poetry. Subsequently, Frost took a teaching job until 1912, then moved to England with the intention of working towards becoming a famous poet. By 1915 Frost was a well-known poet and decided to return to the United States to live on the farm in New Hampshire where he wrote most of his famous poems. One of his most famous poems was titled “The Woodpile”. In this poem Frost embodies nature as well as themes of decay, but if you read deeper the poem also deals with fear of the unknown, but at the same time love of nature and anxiety. These tones are very visible throughout the poem. The post and support are natural resources and the woodpile is a company and as we use nature it will soon collapse. Robert Frost uses anthropomorphism when he mentions the bird, as he shows it as if it were the "last stand". Frost also questions how humanity can spend so much time creating a structured order only to then abandon it. “The Wood-Pile” follows the Frostian which is a 5 accent line but strains it more than usual. The tension is aimed at formal regularity and not at the sound of poetry which, for Frost, comes first. (Sparkling notes). At the beginning of the poem The Woodpile, the writer is walking along a frozen swamp. He's thinking about turning back but decides to keep walking and see where he goes. The writer believes that leaving would give him life... middle of paper... life and how he was touched by death. It also resembles how sooner or later his time to die will also come and how he will not be afraid to accept it and not go back. The bird leads him to believe that he is walking towards his death and that the white tail feather is telling him to give up and not turn back, but in the end he doesn't. Robert Frost was influenced by the New England countryside where he spent much of his life. Frost loved rural life, nature and used simple, natural speech patterns in his poetry. The subjects of his writings were also very simple, just like his life in New England. Despite the simplicity of his poems they were also universal representations of common situations. He had perfect meter and rhyme and his poetic images were grandiose despite the simplicity of his style which ranks him among the greatest poets.