Topic > Robert Frost Biography - 1597

Robert Frost is known for his very diverse writings. Robert was one of the most famous writers of his time. He created poems that made people think about the things he was writing. Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. Frost's parents' names were William Prescott Frost, Jr. and Isabelle Moodie Frost. Her only sibling's name was Jeanie. William Prescott Frost, Jr. was a newspaperman with ambitions to pursue a career in California, and in 1873 he and his wife moved to San Francisco. He died of tuberculosis in 1885. While their mother taught at several schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, Robert and Jeanie grew up in Lawrence, and Robert graduated from high school in 1892. One of the top students in his class, he shared valedictorian honors. with Elinor White, with whom he had already fallen in love (Frost 1). For several years Robert Frost's mother earned her living by teaching at various schools; starting in Salem, New Hampshire, he undoubtedly had a profound impact on his son's development (O'Neill 3). After studying briefly at Dartmouth, he worked as a cotton mill boy, as a shoemaker, a school teacher, and a journalist; he later entered Harvard but left after two years to try farming. In 1912 he went to England, where he received his first acclaim as a poet (Frost 2). In 1892 Robert Frost graduated from Lawrence High School as class poet and as co-valedictorian with a sensitive, bright girl named Elinor Miriam White, whom he married three years later. His paternal grandfather, however, was eager to make the talented young man a lawyer and persuaded him to enter Dartmouth College in the fall of 1892. During those years he wrote poetry, which continues...... middle of paper .. .. .. of his diverse poetic moods he can explore many possible attitudes towards human experience, his poems returning repeatedly to an implicit attitude of devout reverence and faith, which forms the infallible core of his work (O'Neill 5) . Overall, Robert Frost is one of the most important writers of his time. His writings were very different from others because they meant something to others. He will be well remembered for the poems he wrote. Works Cited Frost, Robert. “British Biographies. Encyclopedia Britannica, 2014.Web.2 May 2014.Frost, Robert. “On Robert Frost.” Critical Insights.3-11Frost, Robert. “Online World Book InfoFinder. World Book, 6th edition, September 2103.Web.April 30, 2014 Frost, Robert. “Online World Book InfoFinder. World Book, 2014.Web.2 May 2014.O'Neill, James Norman. Roberto Gelo. Salem: Salem Press, January 2003.