Sold – Robert Frost Signed Quote from Mending Wall
"Something there is that doesn't love a wall...".
Robert Frost, though born in San Francisco, is associated mainly with rural New England. He won the Pulitzer Prize four times, an amazing achievement for a poet, and authored such memorable poems as Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Fire and Ice, and his often-quoted The Road Not Taken.
Frost...
Robert Frost, though born in San Francisco, is associated mainly with rural New England. He won the Pulitzer Prize four times, an amazing achievement for a poet, and authored such memorable poems as Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Fire and Ice, and his often-quoted The Road Not Taken.
Frost spent three years (1912-1915) in England, where he wrote his first book of poetry, A Boy’s Will. Upon his return to America in 1915, he bought a farm in New Hampshire where he began a lengthy career of teaching and lecturing. It was shortly before then that he wrote Mending Wall (1913), a defining poem of Frost’s career and considered by many to be a significant piece of Modern American poetry.
Autograph Quotation Signed, on a 5 by 7 inch album leaf, from his Mending Wall. “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall…” The date of August 18, 1934 is written below in pencil. This beautifully vague opening line, so simple and melodic in nature, sets the mood for the rest of the poem and gets right to the meaning. This was a defining work in Frost’s career, being his first truly modern poem. Through his imagery and choice of language, Frost is able to illustrate a main focal point of the modern poetry movement – the idea of breaking down physical walls, and, consequently, of breaking down literary conventions and boundaries. Of this poem, Frost once said, “I wrote that poem in England when I was very homesick for…New England.”
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