Biography of Robert Frost

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Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. His parents were Isabelle Moodie Frost who was a teacher and William Prescott Frost Jr. who was a journalist perusing a career in California. His fathers dream and career ended in 1885 when his life was taken due to tuberculosis. This incident changed Roberts’s life along with his sisters because it forced his mother to move him and his sister Jeanie to Lawrence, Massachusetts where they were going to be taken care of by their grandparents. Neither Robert nor Jeanie was able to be raised by their mother due to the fact that she was teaching at a variety of schools throughout Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He was one of the top students at Lawrence High School and graduated as the valedictorian along with Elinor White whom he married in 1895. Robert had always been interested in poetry and amazed by it, so he continued his education after high school at Dartmouth College while Elinor continued her education at St. Lawrence University. During the first twelve years of his marriage, he had six children with his wife, but two died young and left him with one son and three daughters.
Roberts first poem to be published was “My Butterfly. An Elegy,” and it was published in 1894 by a weekly literary journal named The Independent. Shortly after his poem was published he dropped out of Dartmouth College, and he had not even attended the college for a complete year. He resumed his education in 1897 at Harvard University, but he then again dropped out after 2 years of attending at the college. By 1911 Frost was already 40 years old and had not yet even published one book of poetry, but during this year, the Derryfarm got passed on top Frost. He sold the farm and used t...

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...ences will make good neighbors which he had not moved on from his dads saying.
Throughout the poem “Mending wall” by Robert Frost the speaker did not like the wall, but even though he did not he still kept in good terms with his neighbor. The neighbor always stated that good fences made good neighbors, but what made them good neighbors was the speakers respect towards his opinion on the wall. The poem also showed how the neighbor and the speaker lived different lifestyles but even though they did they were still able to coexist with one another.
Robert frost will never be forgotten and his poem will always be taught in our elementary schools, high schools, and universities. His work will never be forgotten because it relates to our everday life and “ Today it is Frost’s narrative poetry that exerts the strongest influence on contemporary writers ( Gioia 193).”

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