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=Robert Frost = Biography by: Sydney Robert Frost was one of the most well-known poets of all time. He didn’t publish his first poem until high school and his first book was published in 1912.

Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California, where his father had planned to make his dreams come true. Frost’s father was a journalist and his father died after some time in California. Prompted by her husband’s death, Frost’s mom moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts with her children.

While his mother was teaching schools in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Frost graduated from high school in 1892, which was during the time when he got his first poem published. At the time, he shared Valedictorian honors with Elinor White, who he claims he fell in love with. They had both shared a deep interest in poetry. However, the two parted ways when Robert went to Dartmouth College. Frost though, had left Dartmouth after less than a year.

He re-united with Elinor and they married in 1895, but they found life difficult. Robert taught at a local school and farmed for a living. In the next dozen year, Elinor and Robert had six children, two had died though. They had one son and three daughters.

Frost became discouraged in his forties because he had realized that he had not published a single book, but in 1912 he had published his first book of poetry. He began publishing more books and became one of the most honored poets of the 20th century. Robert Frost died on January 29, 1963.

= __Fun Facts:__ = > Sydney's Photo story:
 * Robert developed many fears such as leaving his mother when it was time to go to school.
 * He recited one of his poems at John F. Kennedy's Inauguration.
 * His school teacher read him poems by Robert Burns, Edgar Allan Poe, and Robert Browning.
 * He taught at the University of Michigan and at Amherst College.
 * Frost bought a farm in New Hampshire in 1915.
 * 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. || ||
 * Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— || ||
 * I took the one less traveled by, || ||
 * And that has made all the difference. || ||

Sydney's Pictures: A drawing of Robert Frost in his early years. Robert Frost in his later years.

Robert Frost in his later years.

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Frost, Robert. Complete Poems of Robert Frost. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1962. Print. Internet Sources: [] [|http://biography.com] (Search "Robert Frost") [|http://famouspoetsandpoems.com] [|http://www.bartleby.com/119/1.]