Robert Frost's Poetry of Rural Life

<p> Wise old Vergil says in one of his Georgics 'Praise large farms stick to small ones' Robert Frost said. Twenty acres are just about enough. Frost started out as a school teacher living the rural life of a would-be farmer and later turned to farming full time when he bought a place of his own. After a sojourn in England where his first two books were published to critical acclaim he returned to New England acquired a new farm and became a rustic for much of the rest of his life.</p><p> Frost claimed that all of his poetry was farm poetry. His deep admiration for Virgil's <I>Georgics</I> or poems of rural life inspired the creation of his own New England georgics his answer to the haughty 20th-century modernism that seemed certain to define the future of Western poetry. Like the West-Running Brook in his poem of the same name Frost's poetry can be seen as an embodiment of contrariness.</p>