trance exam
for Lawrence High School and enrolled in "Classical" program. That year he finished first
In 1890, he had his first poem published ,"La Noche Triste" and a second one,
"The Song of the Wave." He then passed his preliminary entrance examinations for
Harvard College. Also he meet and fell in love with a student named Elinor White. He
becomes engaged to Elinor. Depending on his grandparents for financial support, he then
entered Dartmouth College instead of Harvard because it is cheaper, and his grandparents
blamed Harvard on his fathers drunkenness. He stayed less than one semester and leaves
Dartmouth because he was bored with the college life and was restless. Returning to
Massachusetts, he worked as a school teacher and worked in a mill and as a newspaper
In 1894 he sold "My Butterfly: An Elegy" to The Independent, a New York
literary journal for fifteen dollars. Frost then worked as a reporter in Lawrence for Daily
American and Sentinel(Ketzle p.2). Also at this time he taught at Salem district school.
Then on December nineteenth, 1895, Frost married Elinor White in Lawrence and on
September twenty fifth of the next year his first son was born, Elliot.
Then Frost passed the Harvard College entrance exam and borrowed money from
his grandfather and entered Harvard College as a freshman. A couple years later he
withdrew from Harvard and left without a degree. Then on April 28th 1899, his daughter
Leslie was born, and his mother found out she had advanced cancer.
Nineteen Hundred was a bad year for Frost. Many important things in his life were
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