In 1962 Frost suffered a severe case of pneumonia. Washington D.C. During the later years of his life he recieved many awards from various colleges and people. Robert Frost was a Mondernist. Modernism was an artsitic and literary movement of the early twentieth century that championed experimentation, impersonalism, primitivism, technicality, aestheticism, and intellectualism. Some poets and other writer during the twentieth century rejected modernism as a retreat from the central purpose of art, which they believed to be giving clear, sensible form to experience.
Traditional verse employs regular patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza form.
Free verse rejects all of those elements of form and feels as though they are too limiting or contranng as the net would limit the height at which the tennis ball needed to gain. What he finally arrived at in poetic expression he finds as the highest accomplishment in the greatest English poets and asserts that the American poets who have shown unquestionable genius, especially a man like Edwin Arlington Robinson, have in a large measure the same quality of speech which is at once both artistic and the literal tone of human talk. But no poet in either England or America, except this newly arrived New England poet, has consciously developed and practiced this essential and vital quality of poetry which he characterizes as sound-posturing.