Robert+Frost

Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26th 1874 to William Prescott Frost and Isabelle Moodie Frost. They both met in a school in Pennsylvania, got married, and moved to San Francisco where they had Robert Frost. Their marriage didn’t last long as Isabelle left William, and took Robert and his sister Jeanie (born June 25th, 1876) to Massachusetts. Frost’s father died when Robert was only eleven of tuberculosis and the rest of the family stayed in New England (Bailey, Ebsco). Robert Frost didn’t receive much formal schooling as a young child and wasn’t very well educated due to his nervous illness. Frost did attend high school though in Lawrence Massachusetts where he started to enjoy poetry. Frost graduate high school in 1892 being a class poet and a co-valedictorian (Bailey, Ebsco). Frost worked so many jobs but did really enjoy any because he truly wanted to be a poet. He began to work at his mother’s school as a teacher, and it was here where Frost started to have his poems published in newspapers and magazines. In 1894 he had his first poem “ My Butterfly: An Elegy” published in the November 8th 1894 edition of the New York Independent. It was a big accomplishment for him and he felt so proud (Wikipedia). In 1895 Robert Frost married Elinor White, a former classmate and they had six kids. He went to study at Harvard for a little while, but left needing to support his family. Robert worked on the farm his grandfather had bought him continuing to write more poems. Farming for him was unsuccessful so he went back to teaching at the Pinkerton Academy from 1906 to 1911 (Wikipedia). In 1912 Robert Frost sold his farm and took his wife and kids to England. There he made his first collection of poems – A Boy’s Will, along with North Boston. North Boston was universally recognized and contained some of Frost’s most famous poems such as “Mending Wall”, “ Home Burial”, and “After Apple Picking”. With these poems and collections Robert wrote with a very free verse of dialogue, which were selected, from his own life and experiences. Frost greatly admired English poet Rupert Brooke and was very influenced by him (Famous poets and poems). In 1915 World War I began and Frost returned to America with his family. Robert bought a farm in Franconia New Hampshire and began to teach and lecture again at Amherst College in Massachusetts. Frost always encouraged his students to include their feelings and opinions in their pieces. Here Frost continued to work on his poetry and published one of his most famous pieces “ The Road Not Taken” in 1915 along with “Fire and Ice” in 1916. He spent the summers teaching at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College in Ripton Vermont and is given a lot of credit in the developments of the school’s writing programs. Today, the school now owns Frost’s former farm as a national historic site about Robert. In 1921 Frost taught at the University of Michigan where he wrote his well-known poem “ Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”. Imagery and personification where greatly displayed in this certain piece (Wikipedia). After Frost’s wife died in 1938, he felt attracted to Kay Morrison who he wrote one of his famous love poems “A Witness Tree” to (Famous poets and poems). Robert Frost bought a five-acre piece of land in South Miami Florida in 1940 where he spent most of the winters. Here he wrote his poem“ Directive” in 1947 here (Wikipedia). During most of the other seasons Frost spent his time traveling to see the world and went to England, Israel, Greece, and the Soviet Union. (Famous Poets and Poems). Robert Frost accomplished many things in his life, which truly made him so unique. He even had the honor to read 2 of his poems in John F. Kennedy’s presidential inauguration on January 20 1961 (Wikipedia). Some of the many awards Robert Frost has receive were from the US Senate, the American Academy of Poets, and New York University. Robert Frost also had the honor to be made the poetry consultant for the library of congress in 1958 (Famous Poets and Poems). Additionally, Frost received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. In his honor, Robert Frost Middle School in Fairfax Virginia, and the main library of Amherst college were named after him. On January 29th, 1963 Robert Frost died in Boston because of complications in surgery (Wikipedia). Today all of his accomplishments are looked back upon and greatly appreciated to the contributions he made in this world. He showed us a new type of poetry that not too many people wrote about, including pieces about rural life and philosophical themes (Wikipedia).