The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Introduction to Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly considered for his very shrewd portrayals of country life and his order of American colloquial speech. His work often engaged backgrounds from country life in New England in the early twentieth 100 years, utilizing them to analyze convoluted communal and philosophical themes. A well liked and often-quoted bard, Frost was respected often throughout his lifetime, obtaining four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry.

Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California, to reporter William Prescott Frost, Jr., and Isabelle Moody. His mother was of Scottish fall, and his dad descended from Nicholas Frost of Tiverton, Devon, England, who had cruised to New Hampshire in 1634 on the Wolfrana. (Holman, pp. 38-43)

Frost's dad was an educator and subsequent a reviewer of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin (which subsequent amalgamated with the San Francisco Examiner), and a failed nominee for town levy collector. After his death on May 5, 1885, the family shifted over the homeland to Lawrence, Massachusetts, under the patronage of (Robert's grandfather) William Frost, Sr., who was an overseer at a New England mill. Frost graduated from Lawrence High School in 1892. Frost's mother connected the Sweden borgian place of adoration and had him baptized in it, but he left it as an adult.

Although renowned for his subsequent association with country life, Frost increased up in the town, and published his first poem in his high school's magazine. He came to Dartmouth College for two months, long sufficient to be acknowledged into the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. Frost returned dwelling to educate and to work at diverse occupations - encompassing assisting his mother educate her class of unruly young men, delivering newspapers, and working in a manufacturer as a lightweight bulb filament changer. He did not relish these jobs, feeling his factual calling was poetry. (Larry, pp. 14-18)

In 1894 he traded his first poem, "My Butterfly: An Elegy" (published in the November 8, 1894, version of the New York Independent) for $15. Proud of his accomplishment, he suggested wedding ceremony to Elinor Miriam White, but she demurred, liking to complete school (at St. Lawrence University) before they married. Frost then went on an excursion to the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia, and inquired Elinor afresh upon his return. Having graduated, she acquiesced, and they were wed at Harvard University where he came to liberal creative pursuits investigations for two years.

He did well at Harvard, but left to support his increasing family. Shortly before staining, Robert's grandfather bought a ranch for Robert and Elinor in Derry, New Hampshire; and Robert worked the ranch for nine years, while composing early in the mornings and making numerous of the poems that would subsequent become famous. Ultimately his agriculture verified failed and he returned to the area of learning as an English educator at New Hampshire's Pinkerton Academy from 1906 to 1911, then at the New Hampshire Normal School (now Plymouth State University) in Plymouth, New ...