The Divergent Mending Wall in the Woods

In 1885, the dying request of his father took Frost back to Massachusetts for the burial. Since Frost couldn't afford to travel back to California, Frost remained there and began his writing. Frost led a simple life. He taught, was a New England farmer, worked in a mill, was a reporter, and wrote. He graduated as valedictorian in High School in 1892 and attended Dartmouth College, but quit shortly after he started.

He would also take a teaching position at Derry’s Pinkerton Academy to receive another form of income. Frost would not stay there long, as he felt the need to once again move. In 1912, when Frost was nearly forty he sold the farm and used the proceeds to take his family to England, where he could devote himself entirely to writing. Frost would establish himself quickly and would reap the awards of immediate success. In 1894 at the age of twenty Frost sold and published his first poem “My Butterfly:An Elegy'; to The Independent, a New York literary journal.

He waited for her to graduate while studying liberal arts at Harvard University, and in 1895 were married and had six children: sons Elliot, Carol, and daughters Lesley, Irma, Marjorie, and Elinor Bettina. He left Harvard without graduating to move to the family farm in New Hampshire that his grandfather gave them as a wedding gift before he passed. The Frost family spent nine years on the farm, where Robert wrote some of his most well-known poems in the morning before he started his daily chores on the farm. As the farm did not provide a significant source of income, Frost began working at the Pinkerton Academy and New Hampshire Normal School as an English teacher from 1906-1912. While working he would often submit h... ... middle of paper ... ...s the other road, the one that has seen little wear during the recent years, as the road is overgrown with grass like a fresh snowy powder beckoning someone’s foot.

She provided his education for about the first ten years of his life. He didn’t like to go to school, because he was struck with nervous stomach pains. When Frost’s father died in 1884, his will requested that he be buried in New England. So his wife and two children, Robert and Jeanie, went east for the funeral. They settled in Salem, Massachusetts, where his grandfather lived and offered them a home.

From 1897 to 1899 he attended Harvard College as a special student but left before he acquired his degree. For the next ten years he wrote poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire, and taught at Derry’s Pinkerton Academy. In 1912 he sold his farm and moved to England where he could work on his writings full time. He was an instant success! “A Boy’s Will” was accepted by a London Publisher and a year later so was “North of Boston”.

Frost stayed at Dartmouth for less than a term, then left (5). This caused a fit with Elinor, she wanted him to finish college and wouldn’t marry him until he graduated college. Frost went back to Massachusetts to teach and to work at a variety of jobs like delivering newspapers and factory labor. He hated these jobs with a passion, finally feeling his true calling as a poet (4). The poet favored Ralph Waldo Emerson, and read many of his works (6).

From 1897 to 1899 Frost studied at Harvard, but left without receiving a degree. He moved to Derry, New Hampshire, working there as a cobbler, farmer, and teacher at Pinkerton Academy and at the state normal school in Plymouth. In 1912 Frost sold his farm and took his wife and four young children to England. There he published his first collection of poems, “A Boy’s Will” (1913) followed by “North Boston” (1914), which gained international reputation. The collection contains some of Frost's best-known poems: "Mending Wall," "The Death of the Hired Man," "Home Burial," "After Apple-Picking," and "The Wood-Pile."

Romantic poets have a deep appreciation for the nature that surrounds them and are able to see passed the superficial parts of life in order to see what nature has to offer. The poem “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth is a prime example of romanticism. Wordsworth uses this poem to express to deep love for nature and how nature was able to completely change his life for the better. He uses love of nature, spontaneity and freedom, importance of commonplace, and supernatural forces to help the reader better understand nature. Nature is a major key to writing a romantic poem.

Later on in his life he taught at Pinkerton Academy and he also taught at the Plymouth Normal School for one year. At this time in his life he decides to live a worry-less life and move out of New England. At the time he owns a farm but decides to sell it so he can use the money and move. (Worldbook) During this time in his life his poetry is not published because there are not any editors that will publish his work. Some of his poems such as "October" and "My November Guest" were published in a few magazines.

Writing for a newspaper made him very cautious about word spacing, how different words looked together, and the overall presentation of his work. After five years in the business it had clearly made an impact on Whitman and it was time for him to explore a new career path. At Seventeen Walt moved back home, he went from job to job not really knowing what he wanted to do w... ... middle of paper ... ...s now Walt failed to receive any recognition when he was alive. In 1873 Whitman suffered a serious stroke and had to move in with his brother in New Jersey. Even though his poetry was not yet popular 1,000 people showed up to his funeral when he finally passed.