The poems of Robert Frost (1874–1963) frequently drew inspiration from rural life in New England, using the setting to explore complex social and philosophical themes. A popular and often-quoted poet, Frost was highly honored during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes. Mending Wall is one his most popular poems.
Though not notably associated with any political party, Frost is widely remembered for reciting a poem, The Gift Outright, on January 20, 1961 at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. Nominally a tribute to the country’s early colonial spirit (”This land was ours before we were the land’s”), the poem ends on an optimistic, but ambivalent note:
Such as we were we gave ourselves outright
(The deed of gift was many deeds of war)
To the land vaguely realizing westward,
But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced,
Such as she was, such as she would become.
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