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On Robert Frost Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California. The Frost family moved to Massachusetts when he was 11 yrs old after his father died of tuberculosis. He began to write poetry. Robert Frost focuses his poetry on his experiences of life. They include irony and imagery themes in which he gives contradictions of life and human nature. He operates on so many levels that his poems may cause the reader to misunderstand them. Although Frost uses ordinary subjects, he tends to use a wide variety of emotions, allowing his poems to shift from humor to tragedy. “The dark qualities of a Frost poem, however, do not necessarily determine that the poem without humor….. Frosts’ poems are tricky out of a mischievous sense of delight”. (Bloom, p.10). The “Mending wall”(1106-07) was published in Frost’s North of Boston along with other poems