Robert Frost
Robert frost was born March 26, 1874, in San Francisco California where he lived the first eleven years of his life. After his father died he moved with his sister and mother to Eastern Massachusetts near his grandparents. He started writing his first poems while he was in high school at Lawrence, where he also graduated as Valedictorian. Frost went to Dartmouth college in 1892. After college in 1895 he married to a wonderful woman by the name Elinor Miriam White.
Robert Frost and his wife Elinor both taught school until about 1897 when Frost went to Harvard College for about two years. After Harvard he returned to Lawrence with his wife because he had health problems.
Soon after, Robert and Elinor Had their second child.
As the years past they had decided to move on a farm right over the Massachusetts border in New Hampshire. Over the years on their farm, they had six more children, which two died at birth. Shortly after, Frost had sold the farm, and sailed with his family to Beaconsfield, just outside of London.
For the first 18 months of living in Beaconsfield, Frost would ride forty minutes on the train to London where he would roam the streets going into book stores. Shortly after he was finishing up the manuscript of A Boy's Will.
In late October that year, the book was finally accepted by David Nutt for Publication that following March.
In April Frost moved his family one-hundred miles northwest of London in a cottage in the rolling Gloucester shire farmland near Dymock.
When Frost and his family returned to the United States in February the following year he was known as a leading voice in the new...
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...ter, at the October dedication of the Robert Frost library at Amherst, President Kennedy paid tribute to the Poetry, to "its tide that lifts all spirits," and to the poet "whose sense of the human tragedy fortified him against self-deception and easy consolation."
Within ten years the poets public image was shattered by the appearance of the second volume of Lawrence Thompson's authorized biography, Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915-1937 (1970), Which reviewers took at face value to be an accurate account of a man. Although Frost later came to have grave misgivings about his choice, he had picked Thompson his official biographer in 1939.
Collections of Frost materials are in the Jones Library in Amherst, Mass., Amherst College Library, Dartmouth College Library, University of Virginia Library and the University of Texas Library in Austin.
Waggoner, Hyatt H. "A Writer of Poems: The Life and Work of Robert Frost," The Times Literary Supplement. April 16, 1971, 433-34.
Robert Frost is often known as one of the greatest American poets of all time. Although he is sometimes remembered as hateful and mean spirited, his life was filled with highs and lows. These differentiating periods are represented throughout his poetry. Frost once said that “A poem begins in delight, and ends in wisdom.” As can be seen, this quote not only reflected his poetry, but his life. Though many years of his life were troubled by misfortune, Frost always seemed to persevere. Robert Frost was a talented, thoughtful poet whose life was filled with complexity and tragedy (brainyquote.com).
Robert Frost said many famous quotes throughout his lifetime, including “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on”. During early life Frost grew up in a home with a father who was rough around the edges and a mother who suffered from depression. Frost’s father died from alcoholism and his family promptly moved to Massachusetts. Robert Frost began to pursue a life in college but dropped out with barely a semester finished in order to work. Frost set two goals, one in which was to get a poem published, he struck out repeatedly in both goals. Frost fought to be published by big publishing companies and thrived to become a famous and well known writer. Frost left the United States in 1912 and returned from
“Four-time Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco” on March 26, 1874 to his parents Isabelle and William (Dreese). Frost lived with his loving mother, abusive father, and sister Jeanie. “Because his father was a violent drunk, Frost as a child witnessed the fury and rage of his father on a regular basis, and if his mother spoke in disagreement, William became brutal, smashing furniture and yelling” (Dreese). His mother, Isabelle would “run into the streets with her children to find refuge” (Dreese). Frost suffered from “stomach pains and other mysterious ailments” due to all of the emotional situations he went through while he was young (Dreese). His mother home-schooled him after he couldn’t handle going to public school. His love of nature started to evolve as he g...
Robert Frost is the most celebrated and eminent poet in American history. His roots traverse history and oceans alike. He was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco. His father died when he was 11, due to tuberculosis. He began his poetry career with the publishing of A Boy’s Will in 1913 and North of Boston in 1914, and thereafter moved back to the US after a short stay in England. It was these two works that brought Frost his early fame and built the foundation of his formidable reputation as US Poet Laureate from 1958-1959. He would go on to win four Pulitzer prizes, more than any other poet. Within his vast collection of poems, he has included a plethora of themes, with the large majority of them involving the contrast between nature and
Frost, Robert. Stopped By Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923), Home Burial (1915), and The
However, in 1912, he and his wife unknowingly made a decision that would ultimately lead to his fame. Hoping that they would find more publishers in England, Frost and his family decided to move across the pond from their farm on New Hampshire. It was here that he met Ezra Pound and Edward Thomas, fellow poets that would be highly influential on his work. They looked highly upon Frost's work, encouraging him to continue writing despite being rejected by numerous publishers. Also, it was Thomas who inspired Frost's famous "The Road Not Taken".
The Famous People website states that Frost married Elinor White in 1895, after refusing his proposal a year earlier because she wanted to finish college. The couple had six children, but sadly, most of them passed away. Their first son, Eliot, passed away because of cholera, and their second son, Carol, committed suicide. One of their daughters, Marjorie, got “puerperal fever after childbirth” and passed away. The last child was a daughter named Elinor, who sadly died three days after ...
(Pilkington 1) Robert Frost’s wife was a ginormous inspiration for his poetry. He was also influenced by the likes of Edward Thomas, Robert Graces, and even Ezra Pound. Robert Frost even claimed that Edward Thomas inspired him to write, The Road Not Taken. Apparently, Thomas’s walks around England inspired Frost to write about regret and indecision in his poem. His relationship with his wife, and his friendships with these poets caused Frost to produce plenty of poems.
Often called the most popular American poet of the twentieth century, Robert Frost achieved a worldwide reputation as a major poet early in his career. He and his family spent three years in England, where he published his first two collections of poetry, A Boy’s Will and North of Boston. Initially uncertain about the reception he would receive in the United States, he returned to New England in 1915 to find that his poetry had gained massive popularity among Americans. Frost’s poetry continues to claim a place in the hearts of today’s readers. If asked to name a poet, many would name Robert Frost. Elementary school children learn “The Road Not Taken” and “Mending Wall”. Frost’s poetry earned and keeps its popularity due to its appeal to a wide range of readers. Even those who don’t often read poetry can find something to enjoy. At first glance, Frost writes simply about nature, but beneath the beautiful imagery lays deeper meaning. Frost uses nature to convey his messages, some of which reflect the ideas of the earlier Romantic writers, such as the love of nature and the distrust of industry. While Robert Frost expresses beliefs shared by writers of the Romantic Period, he also describes his own ideas about love, death, and interpersonal relationships.
Robert Frost, a poet that mastered the imagery of nature through his words. Such vivid details compressed in a few stanzas explains the brilliancy of his writing. He was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco. By the 1920s, he was the most celebrated poet in America; with his fame and honor increasing as well. His poems created themes like nature, communication, everyday life, isolation of the individual, duty, rationality versus imagination, and rural life versus urban life. The most controversial theme of this poems is nature and if his poems have a dark side in them. Readers can easily be guided to the fact that his poems are centered on nature; however, it is not. Frost himself says, "I am not a nature poet. There is almost a person in
The Notebooks of Robert Frost. Cambridge, MA: Belknap of Harvard UP, 2006. Print. Kemp, John C. Robert Frost and New England: The Poet as Regionalist. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1979.
Robert Frost was born to an editor for a father, and a member of the Swedenborgian church. His father started as a teacher, and then became the editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin. Isabelle Moodie, his mother, baptized him with the Swedenborgian church. Later on in Frost’s life, he left this church. Frost was born in San Francisco (“Biography of Robert Frost”, poemhunter.com). In 1994, be published his first poem, “The Butterfly: An Elegy,” on November 8, 1894 at age 20. He published this work in the New York newspaper Frost was a unique poet in the way that he stood in between the nineteenth-century poetry, and modern poetry. James M. Cox said that, “Though his career fully spans the modern period and though it is impossible to speak of him as anything other than a modern poet, it is difficult to place him in the main tradition of modern poetry,” (“Robert Frost”, poetryfoundation.org).
Robert Frost has always been noted for his incredible poetry that is full of imagery, symbolism, tone, and depth. The depth in his poems appears to be most often portrayed through his use of symbolism, as this is one veritable way to give the reader something to dwell upon and examine. For example, if Fr...
Frost went back to Massachusetts to teach and to work at a variety of jobs like delivering newspapers and factory labor. He hated these jobs with a passion, finally feeling his true calling as a poet (4). The poet favored Ralph Waldo Emerson, and read many of his works (6). In 1894 Robert Frost had his first poem published in The Independent, the title of his poem was “My Butterfly: an Elegy” (7). Frost proposed to Elinor, and she said no because she wanted him to finish college first, so the poet then attended Harvard Unive...