This
paper explains that Frost's poetry reflects his difficult life; he grew up in a highly dysfunctional
family, and three of his four children died tragically. The author points out that, in addition to becoming a great American poet, he tended towards bitterness and resented that his genius had not been recognized sooner. In spite of many awards, he was angry that he never received the Nobel
Prize for literature. The paper relates that Frost did receive four Pulitzer Prizes; his final Pulitzer prize in 1942 was for a collection titled "A Witness Tree", which included the poems i "Beeches" and "The Gift Outright," a poem he read at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, shortly before his own death.