A Full Life With Empty Barrels Robert Lee hoarfrost, known American poet whose poetry was written to be easily silent and reads similar to everyday speech, wrote several poems that are frequently recited and quoted. frosts arduous life is reflected in his poems; his poetry is some(prenominal) fair and complex. Frost uses deceptively simple strategies, imagery, metaphors, small details, nature, and traditional measure to convey feelings and intent, making him Americas most beloved and esteem poet, both by the common man and the critics. Robert Lee Frosts poem After Apple-Picking reflects Frosts life, his mistakes, regrets, and experiences, using a wishful tone. Frost, born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874, live ond in calcium until he turned eleven, and his father died, which compelled his family to move to Lawrence, Massachusetts to live with his paternal grandparents. Because Frost is so intimately associated with rural upstart England, one tends to forget that the first landscape printed on his imagination was both urban and Californian. That he came to appreciate, and to see in the imaginative authority a poet must see, the imagery of Vermont and New Hampshire has something to do with the anomalousness of coming late to it.