Robert Frost (n.d)
By: Mrs. Guerin,
Mrs. Hogan
& Mrs. McMahon
Robert Frost: Childhood
• He was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco (n.d).
• His father died from tuberculosis when he was only was
eleven years old (n.d).
• Because of this, his mother and sister, Jeanie, who was two
years younger, had to move to Lawrence, Massachusetts (n.d).
• This is where he became interested in reading and writing poetry
during his high school years (n.d).
• This lead him to enrolled at Dartmouth College in Vermont in
1892 and following this Harvard University in Boston (n.d).
• Though he was enrolled in two of the most famous colleges in
America, Frost never got a college degree (n.d)!
Robert Frost: Adulthood
• Frost worked as a teacher, cobbler, and editor of the Lawrence
Sentinel (n.d).
• Frost got his first poem published ("My Butterfly,“) on November 8,
1894, in the New York newspaper The Independent (n.d) .
• In 1895, Frost married Elinor Miriam White (n.d).
• He had known her since high school, sharing valedictorian honors.
She was a major form of inspiration for Frost’s poetry (n.d).
• However she died in 1938 (n.d).
• The couple moved to England in 1912 (n.d).
• While they lived in England, Frost met many great contemporary
British poets such as Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, and Robert
Graves (n.d).
• Frost also established a friendship with the poet Ezra Pound, who
helped to promote and publish his work (n.d).
Robert Frost: Adulthood con’t
• When Frost and his wife returned in 1915, he had two full-length
collections published and a reputation established (n.d).
• By the 1920’s, he was one of the most celebrated poets in America.
• With each new book his fame in the country grew, this includes
winning four Pulitzer Prizes (n.d).
• Frost’s work in mainly related to his life, and the landscape, of New
England. He also used traditional verse forms (n.d).
• However, Frost is considered anything but a regional poet. He is
considered to be a modern poet because of his use of language, and
the psychological ideas portrayed in his works (n.d) .
• His work covers universal themes in a dark way, filled with layers of
irony, and ambiguity (n.d).
• Robert Frost lived and taught for many years in Massachusetts and
Vermont, and died in Boston on January 29, 1963 (n.d).
“The Road Not Taken” by
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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“The Pasture” By Robert Frost
I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
I'll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):
I sha'n't be gone long.—You come too.
I'm going out to fetch the little calf
That's standing by the mother. It's so young,
It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
I sha'n't be gone long.—You come too.
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Works Cited
• (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/192