Robert Frost

             Among the many poets that have contributed to the shaping of American literature, Robert Frost stands as one of the most prevalent. With his descriptive lines about nature, in all its beauty and splendor, he creates scenes within a reader's mind that are hard to forget. His thriving life, and all that was a part of it, is the main "genetic make-up" that he used in his writings. Frost's love of nature seems to dominate all other themes found in his poetry, whether discussing its beauty or destructiveness.
             Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874. After his father's death in 1885, he moved to New England at the age of eleven and became interested in reading and writing poetry during his high school years in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became enrolled at Dartmouth College in 1892, and later at Harvard, but never earned a formal degree. Frost drifted through a string of occupations after leaving school, working as a teacher, cobbler, and editor of the Lawrence Sentinel. His first professional poem, "The Butterfly," was published on November 8, 1984 in the New York literary journal, The Independent.
             A year later, in 1895, Frost married Elinor Miriam White, who became a major inspiration in his poetry until her death in 1938. After his two years at Harvard, Frost maintained a living by operating a farm in Derry, New Hampshire, writing poetry, and taught at Derry's Pinkerton Academy. The couple moved to England in 1912, after their New Hampshire farm failed, and it was abroad that Frost first met and was influenced by such contemporary British poets as Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, and Robert Graves. While in England, Frost also established a friendship with the poet Ezra Pound, who helped to promote and publish his work. By the time Frost returned to the United States in 1915, he had published two full-length collections, A Boy's Will and North of Boston, and his reputation was esta...

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