Robert Lee Frost, b. San Francisco, Mar. 26, 1874 d. Boston, Jan. 29, 1963, was one of the leading poets of the 20th-century and a four time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Frost was a poet often associated with rural New England, although his poems could be felt and related to in any region of the world. Thought his younger days may have not been filled with other children having fun and such, Frost made the best of what he enjoyed. At the young age of only eleven Frost's father passed away. Soon after his death the family left California to settle in Massachusetts. As young Frost grew-up he attended high school in that state, later would enter Dartmouth College, but would remain there less that one semester. Later he returned to Massachusetts where he would be a school teacher along with two other jobs he held as a mill worker and a newspaper reporter.
Then in 1895 Frost married Elinor White whom he had been co-valedictorians with in high school. Then between 1897 and 1899 Frost felt the need to go back to college he attended Harvard as a special student
Frost spent the last years of his life giving interviews and public speaking. On December 2nd, 1962 in Boston, Frost would give his last public speech. The following day Frost enter the hospital there eight weeks later he would lose his struggle for life. A few weeks before Frosts death he gave a interview saying something on what life may mean. "I guess I don't take life very seriously. It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it . And what's in between doesn't make much sense." (Lathem 295)
Not everthing Frost wrote said or did was liked by everyone he had his archrivals, his critics, and his enemys. He often wrote in traditional verse form and not free verse. "...---he often said, in a dig at archrival Carl Sandburg, that he would as soon play tennis without a net as write free verse--he was a pioneer in the interplay of rhythem and meter and in the poetic use of the vocabulary and inflections of everyday speech, His poetry is thus both traditional and experimental, regional and universal." (Amer. Encylopedia 1) Frost's conservatism caused him to lose favor with his cric
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