Robert Frost died in 1963. He’s buried in a family plot in Bennington, Vermont, at an old church cemetery, on a hill overlooking the town, crested by the Green Mountains.

The couple started a family in 1896, and Frost took a turn as an unsuccessful farmer and, later,a caring, rumple-haired teacher. In 1912 he relocated his family for a few years to England.

The Robert Frost Farm Historic Site, in Derry, New Hampshire, on Sept. 26, 2007, where Robert Frost and his family once lived. (Mark Wilson/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) ...

Frost’s stalwart grandfather, recognizing his grandson’s aimlessness, bought him the Derry farm (and the poultry) on the condition that Frost and his family live there for a minimum of 10 years.

When the speaker of Frost’s poem wonders what use a wall might be that encloses no livestock, I wonder that, too. When he asks his neighbor just how it is that good fences make good neighbors ...

Jay Parini is a poet, novelist and Robert Frost biographer. He wrote about the poem "Nothing New" for The New Yorker, and he joins us now. Welcome, Jay. JAY PARINI: Andrew, thank you for having me on.

The couple started a family in 1896, and Frost took a turn as an unsuccessful farmer and, later,a caring, rumple-haired teacher. In 1912 he relocated his family for a few years to England.