A Roadside Stand – Robert Lee Frost Robert Frost is known for his simple and colloquial language dealing with complexities of ordinary and everyday life, human relationships, isolation, morality, rural life and nature. Frost often used nature as tool and the central theme on which he knitted his ideas, experiences and emotions. The poem was first published in 1936. It is very important to know the American society of that time. America was suffering from the infamous Great Depression (1929) which was a global economic crisis that continued till 1939 leading to unemployment and poverty. It was worsened by the Dust Bowl, a severe dust storm that disturbed the ecological balance in America leaving the farming families in utter distress and were compelled to migrate in search of livelihood. America was struggling to recover through the New Deal of President Roosevelt (1933) who mostly emphasised on construction work, industrialisation and employment. The social...