Biographical Essay - Robert Frost

             Robert Lee Frost was one of America's leading twentieth-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He was a pioneer of poetry and his writing was both traditional and experimental. Robert Frost has written many great poems over his lifetime such as "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Birches" and "Mending Wall" which is one of Frost's self-defining poems.
             In 1985, when Robert was 11 years old, his father died and the family left Massachusetts and moved to California. Frost went to high school and then attended Dartmouth College where he only stayed for one semester. Frost then returned to Massachusetts where he taught school, worked in a mill and was a newspaper reporter. He then married Elinor White who had attended high school with him. From 1897 to 1899
             he attended Harvard College but never earned a degree. Over the next ten years, he wrote poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire, and made extra money by teaching at Derry's Pinkerton Academy. In 1912, at the age of 38, he sold the farm and used the money to take his family to England, where he could devote himself entirely to writing. The Frosts sailed for the United States in February 1915 and landed in New York City two days after the publication of North of Boston, the first of his books to be published in America. The sales of that book and of A Boy's Will allowed Frost to buy a farm in Franconia, New Hampshire. In 1924 he received a Pulitzer Prize in poetry for New Hampshire. He was rewarded again for Collected Poems, A Further Range, and A Witness Tree. Over the years he received a number of literary, academic, and public honors.
             Robert Frost's inspiration for his poetry came from within himself. His decisions concerning which direction his life would take can be seen in one of his most famous poems "The Road Not Taken". Ultimately he realized that the road one chooses to take is what builds one 's character. It is a life-long decisi...

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