"Wise old Virgil says in one of his Georgics, 'Praise large farms,
stick to small ones,'" Robert Frost told a friend. "Twenty acres
are just about enough." Frost started out as a school teacher
living the rural life of a would-be farmer, and later turned to
farming full time when he bought a place of his own. After a
sojourn in England where his first two books--A Boy's Will and
North of Boston--were published to critical acclaim, he returned to
New England, acquired a new farm and became a rustic for much of
the rest of his life. Frost claimed that all of his poetry was farm
poetry. His deep admiration for Virgil's Georgics, or poems of
rural life, inspired the creation of his own New England
"georgics." This body of work can be seen as his answer to the
haughty 20th-century modernism that seemed certain to define the
future of Western poetry. Like the "West-Running Brook" in his poem
of the same name, Frost's poetry can be seen as an embodiment of
contrariness.
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