Robert frost famous poems
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Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874 to William Prescott Frost, Jr., a journalist and zealous Democrat, and Isabelle Moodie, a Scottish schoolteacher. A descendant of early British colonist Nicholas Frost, Frost’s father was originally based in New England but worked as a teacher and an editor of the “San Francisco Evening Bulletin” in California. When William Frost died of tuberculosis in 1885, the family was left with only $8 to support themselves. Isabelle Moodie and the eleven-year-old Robert were forced to move to Lawrence, Massachusetts, under the financial patronage of Frost’s paternal grandfather, William Frost, Sr.
During his time in Lawrence, Frost began to develop a particular interest in poetry and writing and published his first poem in the student magazine of Lawrence High School. After receiving his high school diploma in 1892, Frost enrolled at Dartmouth College and was accepted into the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. However, he only studied at Dartmouth for a few months before returning home to work at a variety of jobs, including delivering ne
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Robert Frost
American poet (1874–1963)
This article is about the poet. For other people with the same name, see Robert Frost (disambiguation).
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Frost in 1949 | |
| Born | (1874-03-26)March 26, 1874 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Died | January 29, 1963(1963-01-29) (aged 88) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet, playwright |
| Education | Dartmouth College (no degree) Harvard University (no degree) |
| Notable works | A Boy's Will, North of Boston, New Hampshire[1] |
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| Spouse | Elinor Miriam White (m. 1895; died 1938) |
| Children | 6 |
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech,[2] Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.[3]
Frequently honored during his lifetim
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Robert Frost
Robert Lee Frost, named after the Confederate general, was born in 1874 in California, nine years after the end of the Civil War. His father was an unsuccessful politician and a severe and humourless man; he suffered bouts of depression and was often violent. Robert Frost’s early childhood was further disorganised by domestic chaos, frequent moves and patchy education; at the age of eleven he tried to offer comfort during the final stages of his father’s death from tuberculosis.
By this time the family had moved to New England to join Robert’s grandparents. He now attended school regularly and fell in love with a fellow pupil, Elinor White, whom he was eventually to marry. He spent some time at both Dartmouth College and Harvard, but left to farm, learn to make shoes and write. His first two books of poetry were published during a visit to England with his family from 1912 to 1915. These demonstrated ‘his simple woodland philosophy’, as a reviewer put it at the time, but also gave glimpses of the more troubled spirit to be further expre
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