Robert Frost's 'My Butterfly'

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Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874. His father died of tuberculosis when he was eleven years old and because of that he moved with his mother and younger sister to Lawrence, Massachusetts. He later attended Lawrence High School, where he met his love and future wife, Elinor Miriam White. High school was where he first became interested in reading and writing poetry. After graduating in 1892, he attended Dartmouth University in Hanover, New Hampshire for a few months, until he returned home to work various unfulfilling jobs for several years. His first published poem, “My Butterfly,” appeared in The Independent, a weekly literary journal based in New York on November 8, 1894. He proposed and got married to Elinor White

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