Robert Frost"s poetic images and topics changed as a result of the depression. Reflected in Robert Frost"s poetry lie the feelings and concerns of Americans, expressed through different poetic images and topics. As compared to Robert Frost"s earlier work, which focused on man and nature, Frost"s poems during the Great Depression, shift poetic images and topics to the relationship between man and man. Later in Frost"s life, after the depression, Robert Frost"s themes changed another time to man and God. .

             Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26, 1874 to Isabelle and William Prescott Frost. In 1885, at age 11, Frost"s father died. As a result Robert moved with his mother and sister Jeanie to Lawrence, Massachusetts. In 1895 Robert married Elanor White, his high school sweetheart, and began a teaching job at a local school. His first son Elliot was born on September 25, 1896 followed by his daughter Leslie on April 28, 1899. In 1899 Frost"s mother Isabelle, his first son Elliot, passed away. In 1902, Elanor gave birth to Frost"s second son, Carol. Frost then decided to move with his wife and daughter to a small farm outside Derry, New Hampshire. In 1905, Elanor had another daughter, Majorie. Following Majorie"s birth in 1907, Elinor Betina was born, but quickly passed away. The death of Frost"s children hit him hard; he tried to be the best father he knew how, spending every moment with his children. As said by Alan Shucard, "He remained bound up in their lives and deaths." .

             Trying to get away from his life in America, Frost traveled to England in 1912, where he settled on a small farm in Buckinghamshire. After the outbreak of WWI in 1914, Robert and his family moved to Gloucestershire. A year later Robert moved again, and returned to Franconia, New Hampshire. After his move, Henry Holt and Company published A Boys Will and North of .

             Boston. However, in 1938, tragedy overshadowed the news of his publication when after an operation to remove cancer, Elanor, passed away.