After reading a short biography on Robert Frost, one would automatically think, "No wonder he became a poet." His adult life was full of tragedy from money problems, both is daughter and wife dying, and then his son committing suicide and his other daughter being admitted into a mental institution. His first book called A Boy's Will was published in 1913 and brought him into fame. From there on, he wrote many books, yet his work barely changed over time. His poems are written in both traditional and nontraditional forms yet always with precise structure. (959-960).
Frost's poems Fire and Ice and Neither Out Far Nor In Deep are both examples of traditional poetry, especially Neither Out Far Nor In Deep. When Frost wrote this poem it seems he used a classic form of poetry. The poem has four stanzas of four lines each with the end words rhyming with every other line. This rhyme scheme is called perfect rhyme, which means the end sounds correspond with each other perfectly. This poem also uses imagery by giving the reader a picture to associate with the words. In Fire and Ice, the rhyme scheme is not as easily seen or read as in Neither Out Far Nor In Deep. The poem is one stanza long with a total of nine lines. Although all of the end words correspond with each other at some point in the poem, they don't do it in a constant way. At first it looks like the only two rhymes will be "ire and ice." But the last four lines, Frost throws in "hate and great," which is unexpected. In this poem it seems that Frost is giving his opinion to the age-old argument of how the world will end (too hot or too cold; fire or ice). At first he agrees with those who say it will end with fire, but then he says that if he has to die twice, he agrees with those who say with ice. .
Nontraditional poetry can also be called free verse. Free verse is a poem written without any thought given to rhyme. Directive is one example of Frost's nontraditional poems.
