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Authors write poetry for many reasons including to prove a point, share life stories or to just make the reader think. But the main reason that they write poems is because of their background and other influences. Robert frost is a great example of a poet influenced by his experiences. These influences show up in most of his poetry but especially in “The Road Not Taken” and “Birches”. Moving to the New England region, influential people and his views on society, and World War I influenced Robert Frost to write much of his poetry and brought him to a stage of worldly fame.

Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26th of 1874. His father was William Prescott Frost Jr., who was a journalist, and his mother was Isabelle Moodie (“Biography of Robert Frost”). William Frost Jr. was an Englishman who immigrated to New hampshire and Isabelle Moodie was of Scottish descent. His mother and father had just moved from Pennsylvania (“Biography of Robert Frost”). When his father died of tuberculosis in 1885, Robert moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts with his mother and little sister (“Robert Frost”).

He became interested in poetry during his high school years in Lawrence (“Robert Frost”). Robert Frost got into Harvard, but was not able to attend because of a lack of money. He went to Dartmouth in 1892 and worked at a variety of teaching and jobs. Later he went to Harvard, but never got a college degree for poetry (“Birches”). Frost married Elinor White in 1895 whom he met in high school. She inspired much of his poetry until she died in 1938. He left in 1899 to support his family's farming business (“Birches”).

From moving to Lawrence, Frost was majorly influenced by the life and geography of New England in his poetry."My Butterfly" wa...

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