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| Robert Lee Frost was born on the twenty-sixth of March 1874 in the west of San Francisco, California. His father, William Prescott Frost, was a news reporter and editor. His mother, Isabelle Moodie, was a teacher. They hoped for their son to someday become a successful lawyer. Frost's ancestors were Scottish-English and his mother came from a Scottish family as well. Robert Lee Frost was named after Robert E. Lee, a scholar and commander of the Confederate army during the Civil War. William Prescott Frost died of tuberculosis in 1885. He was in his early thirties, while his was only ten years old. Isabelle Frost took her children, Robert and his sister Jeanie to Lawrence Massachusetts to live with William's parents. Before moving the Lawrence, Robert Frost had not been introduced to any kind of education. That same year that they moved, 1885, he started attending school. About one year later, Isabelle went to teach at a district school in Salem Depot, New Hampshire. After one and a half years of upgraded school, Frost went eight miles south to attend Lawrence High School. Frost graduated from Lawrence High in 1892, sharing valedictorian honors with Elinor Miriam White. While in high school, he began earning extra money with all sorts of small odd jobs. He had worked as a cobbler for some time and was getting paid well. He spent most of his vacations working at a shoe shop and in a farm when he had time. Frost had a chance to attempt his hand as a journalist. At the age of nineteen, he was asked to put life back into the journal, but he failed. On the nineteenth of December 1895, Robert Frost married Elinor Miriam White. Right after graduation, Frost attended Dartmouth College. He also taught at grammar schools, worked at mills, and served as a newspaper reporter and editor. For the next five years, Frost assisted his mother at her private and tutorial school in Lawrence and had to take charge of it in 1900 when his mother passed away. At the age of twenty-two, Frost attended Harvard College to please his family and complete his scholastic education. He left Harvard before finishing his degree requirements because of tuberculosis and the birth of his second child. Three years later, Frost's eldest child died which led to martial discord. Critics believe that Frost later addressed this event in his poem "Home Burial." Robert and Elinor Frost had a total of six children. They were Elliot, Lesley, Carol, Irma, Elinor Bettina, and Marjorie. Two of the six children died at early ages. Robert Frost composed about ten pieces in rhyme and blank verse. At nineteen years old, he wrote an irregular rhyme stanza, which he entitled: my Butterfly." The Independent, a magazine of national circulation, accepted this poem and Frost received fifteen dollars for it. Frost was committed to the Derry Farm for ten years. In 1912, he moved to England in hope that his work would get published. In England, Frost achieved his first literary success. In 1913, his book of poems, "A Boy's Will," was published by the first English Publisher he approached. The work that was published made Frost an official author. His first work was just the beginning of his lifelong poetic style. His work was sparse and precise yet it could be simple and earthy. In 1914, his second collection, ": North of Boston," was published and it was praised just like the first. Robert Frost and his family returned to the United States in 1915, seven months after the start of the First World War. Now his poetry had become quite popular. Both his books were on sale in the United States. Henry Holt and Company were the ones who published them. Frost was now forty years old. From 1915 to 1950, Frost spent much of his time learning in institutions and teaching in Amherst College, University of Michigan, Harvard University, and Dartmouth College. In 1949, The Limited Edition Club presented Frost its Global Medal. On the twenty-forth of March 1959, the Senate of the United States did a great thing by taking off from his political to consider and agree upon a citation to honor Frost on his seventy0fifth birthday. In 1961, at the inauguration of President John F Kennedy, Frost became to first poet to recite a poem, "The Gift Outright," at a presidential inauguration. Robert Frost was an American poet who showed is views and opinions through his poems. His observations show irony, which make his work not as old-fashioned as it first seems to be. By being traditional and skeptical, Frost's work help provide a link between American poetry of the 19th century and 20th century. Robert Lee Frost died on the twenty-third of January 1963 of chronic cystitis. At the time of his death, he was considered to be a kind of "unofficial poet laureate" of the United States. Frost traveled more than any poet did in his generation to give lectures. Frost never enjoyed public speaking and remained terrified of it till the end. |
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