Robert Frost Biography

The Biography of Robert Frost

Robert Frost was born on the 26th of March, 1874 in San Francisco to William Prescott Frost Jr. and Isabelle Moodie. His father was a very strict person and loved to drink and gamble. When his father died in 1885, Robert moved to Massachusetts to live with his mother and sister.

He attended Dartmouth College for a semester. He went back home to teach and did several other odd jobs including delivering newspapers.

In 1894 he sold his first poem for $15 to The New York Independent. Proud of his achievement, he proposed to Elinor Miriam White, his high school sweetheart. She refused, wanting to wait till they finished their education. Disappointed and suspecting that there was another man in her life, he went away to the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia. When he came back later that year, he proposed to her again. This time, she accepted. They were married in 1895.

Till 1897, they taught together in school. Then Robert Frost moved to studying in Harvard. He stayed there for two years, but had to return due to his ill health and because his wife was having their second child.

His grandfather gave them a farm at Derry, in New Hampshire before dying. They settled down on the farm and stayed there for 9 years. That is where he wrote most of his famous works.

However, to support his family, Robert Frost had to take up several teaching jobs across the country.

In 1912, Robert Frost and his family sailed to Glasgow and settled down in Beaconsfield near London. The next year, he published his first poetry book titled ‘A Boys Will’.

In 1915 he returned to America and settled down in Franconia, New Hampshire where he bought a farm. He then began teaching, lecturing and writing. From 1916 to 1938 he was the professor of English at the Amherst University. He also taught at the Bread Loaf School of English of the Middlebury College in Ripton, Vermont.

Robert Frost died on the 29th of January, 1963. During his lifetime he was the recipient of 4 Pulitzer Prizes.

The Robert Frost Biography is a picture of a man who was young and brave. Robert Frost poetry is a dream of this young man trying to give a human voice to art. Robert Frost poems appear at first glance to be simple but upon deeper investigation are explorations of the philosophies of mankind in depth.

To conclude, a poem written by Robert Frost:

The Road Not Taken

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.