Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874. His parents were Isabel Moodie and William Prescott Frost, Jr. His father drank and gambled a lot, which upset the whole family. In 1875, he became the city editor of the San Francisco Daily Evening Post. On June 25, 1876, Robert's sister Jeannie was born.

In 1879, Frost entered kindergarten but came home after one day because of nervous stomach pain and did not return afterward. The next year, he tried to go to the first grade, but dropped out again. The same happened the next year after that. He was home schooled. In 1883, Frost heard some voices while he was alone. His mom tells him that he shares her gift of "second hearing" and "second sight," which is the idea that some people hear spirits or ghosts, when no one else can. In 18

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In conclusion, the theme in Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" is how people are presented with many life affecting choices everyday, and that whether the choices come out the right way or not, everyone has to live with them.. Some are life changing, and some are small. The poem is in somewhat of a romantic style, even though it is a reality-based idea. The poetic devices in the poem add to getting the story across by making it a metaphor for life. By doing that the reader is given a better, more interesting way of thinking about what the poem's point it.

In 1891, Frost passed the entrance exams to get into Harvard. When he was there, he met and fell in love with Elinor Miriam White. The next year he became engaged to her. Since he had to depend on his grandparents for money, he entered Dartmouth College because it was cheaper, and because his grandparents blamed Harvard for all of his father's drinking and gambling problems. That December, he left college because he was bored with it and wanted something to do. In 1893, he taught a rowdy eighth grade glass for a couple of weeks. Then he tried to convince Elinor to marry him before he went to St. Lawrence University in New Yord, but she said no. Through the rest of the 1890's, Frost worked as a teacher, farmer, and an editor. During this time is when he collected lots of material that would make the themes of his most famous poems.

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"The Road Not Taken," by Robert Frost is an enjoyable poem that is a metaphor for life. On a superficial level, this poem is about someone walking through the woods, coming to two possible ways to go, and then choosing one. The narrator chooses the one less traveled, and later says that they do not regret it. The underlying meaning of "The Road Not Taken" is that the narrator is using the woods and paths as a metaphor for the choices people have to make in life. That is the main theme of the poem. It is obvious from lines six to ten that the narrator took the path that was less traveled. In other words, the narrator did not follow the crowd, but instead made his own choice.

85 his father died. He died of tuberculosis on May 5, leaving his family with only $8.00 after all his expenses were paid. After his death, the family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts to live with their grandparents. Robert and his sister Jeannie did not like them because they were so strict.

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