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Robert Frost

(1874-1963)

Who Was Robert Frost?

Robert Frost was an American poet and winner of four Pulitzer Prizes. Famous works include “Fire and Ice,” “Mending Wall,” “Birches,” “Out Out,” “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and “Home Burial.” His 1916 poem, "The Road Not Taken," is often read at graduation ceremonies across the United States. As a special guest at President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, Frost became a poetic force and the unofficial "poet laureate" of the United States.

Frost spent his first 40 years as an unknown. He exploded on the scene after returning from England at the beginning of World War I. He died of complications from prostate surgery on January 29, 1963.

Early Years

Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, California. He spent the first 11 years of his life there, until his journalist father, William Prescott Frost Jr., died of tuberculosis.

Following his father's passing, Frost moved with his mother and sister, Jeanie, to the town of Lawrence, Massachusetts. They moved in with his grandparents, and Frost attended

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Robert Frost

Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, where his father, William Prescott Frost, Jr., and his mother, Isabelle Moodie, had moved from Pennsylvania shortly after marrying. After the death of his father from tuberculosis when Frost was eleven years old, he moved with his mother and sister, Jeanie, who was two years younger, to Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became interested in reading and writing poetry during his high school years in Lawrence, enrolled at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1892 and, later, at Harvard University, though he never earned a formal degree.

Frost drifted through a string of occupations after leaving school, working as a teacher, cobbler, and editor of the Lawrence Sentinel. His first published poem, “My Butterfly,” appeared on November 8, 1894 in the New York newspaper The Independent.

In 1895, Frost married Elinor Miriam White, with whom he’d shared valedictorian honors in high school, and who was a major inspiration for his poetry until her death in 1938. The couple moved to England in 1912, after th

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Robert Lee Frost was an American poet, possibly the most well-known of the twentieth century's American poets. Frost grew up in an era when modernism was the dominant literary movement in both America and Europe. Frost, on the other hand, was a resolutely anti-modern poet, unlike his contemporaries. He used the same literary tropes that have been used in English from the beginning of poetry: rhyme, metre, and regimented stanzas, dismissing free verse with the witty remark, "I'd just as well play tennis with the net down."

Traditional poetic forms were widely abandoned as outmoded in modernist poetry. Frost eloquently established that they weren't by writing poems with a clearly modern sensibility and old poetic patterns. As a result, Frost has had as much, if not more, effect on modern poetry—which has experienced a revival of formalism—than many poets of his time.

Frost went through a lot of personal adversity, and his verse drama "A Masque of Mercy" (1947), based on Jonah's storey, presents a deeply felt, largely orthodox religious perspective, suggesting that man, with his li