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Robert Frost had always been interested in poetry even from a young age. He graduated from Lawrence High School at the top of his class along with Elinor White, who he fell in love with. He and Elinor then went their separate ways, while he went on to attend Dartmouth College she attended St. Lawrence University. He and Elinor did get married a few year later when they both had graduated and Robert was working different jobs as he was having no luck trying to publish his poems in the United States. Because he was not able to get any of his poems published he moved to England in hopes of better luck. After only a short time he managed to get a view works published in England and the news of his works started a lot of buzz. While all of this was going on he had no idea that people in America were also beginning to hear about his work. With the beginning of World War One he moved his family back to the United States were he took up job lecturing in colleges, but he was now living the life he had always wanted, a successful poet with a family. Throughout the rest of his life kept writing and publishing poems which he received many awards for.
Frost’s writing was inspired by different things like when he lost a son and daughter due to illness. During this same time he had struggled to make ends meet running a chicken farm and was finding it difficult to get anybody to publish his works. Events like these along with his opinions, other major events in his life, landscape/ his way of life, and British poets he had met from when he would move back and forth from the United States to England helped inspire him to become a poet as well as writing his poetry. While in England one famous poet he became close friends with was Ezra Pound. Ezra...

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