My poetry paper is going to consist of Robert Lee Frosts' milestones, his works, and his accomplishments. Frost has had an astounding effect upon my life by his few works that I have had the privilege to study. The Road Not Taken is one that stands alone. His rigid style of writing and his comprehension of nature and life, to me, is impressive.
             Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. At the age of eleven, his family moved to New Hampshire. In 1892, he graduated from Lawrence High School as class poet and co-valedictorian. The other valedictorian was a girl named Elinor White whom Frost married three years later in 1895. Even before his graduation, he had decided to make a career out of poetry, but his grandfather had other plans. In the fall of 1892, Frost was convinced by his grandfather to enter Dartmouth College. After less than one semester however, he left school. During the next few years, he earned a living doing many different things such as teaching school, working as a bobbin boy at a wool mill in Lawrence, newspaper reporting, and other odd jobs. Throughout these years, he continued to write poetry which he sent to many newspaper and magazine editors. In 1894, he finally received a check from the New York Independent for a poem entitled "My Butterfly."
             After Frost's marriage, he spent the next two years helping his mother run a small private school in Lawrence, NH. In 1897, he was admitted to Harvard University as a special student. After just two years there, he grew impatient with formal study, and once again, left school. Around this point, a doctor warned Frost that his health condition suggested the threat of tuberculosis, and the rural life would be more suitable. His grandfather bought him a farm in Derry, New Hampshire, where from 1900 to 1905, Frost raised poultry and came to be known as "the egg man." While in rural New Ham...