Many individuals have a direct vision on life. Robert Frost, an American poet, was born in San Francisco, California, on March 26, 1874. During his youth he attended respectively, the Universities of Dartmouth and Harvard, but never obtained a degree. In 1912, Frost moved his family to England because of lack of luck in publishing his poetry. It was in England that Frost gained the reputation of being a strong literary poet; but Frost longed to be accepted at home so, in 1915, returned to America, where he was now well renowned. A distinguishing literary characteristic that Frost possesses is,...
to considering how life has been experienced fully but with many regrets and mistakes.

"The Death of a Hired Man", "Blueberries" and "After Apple-Picking", have the common theme of gloom in mankind's life. "The Death of a Hired Man" tells of a man who realizes his error in life, but is too late to make any kind of amends, while "Blueberries" communicates a common family situation of problems trying to be covered up, as in "After Apple-Picking", life's mishaps and unchangeable mistakes are told. Some people have brutally realistic views on life; Robert Frost is one of these people.