Robert Frost Essay
Robert Lee Frost, was born on March 26,1874 in San Francisco. Frost spent the first eleven years of his life in San Francisco until the death of his father. He then moved with his mother and sister in Massachusetts near his grandparents. As a young boy Frost played baseball, trapped animals and climbed branches. His mother filled his childhood with the Bible and Shakespeare. Robert first was interested in poetry at Lawrence High School where he wrote his first poem “ La Noche Triste, “ which was inspired by William H. Prescott. Frost also joined the debating society , played football and was in the head of his class. Because of his excellent performance in high school , he graduated valedictorian with Elinor White( his soon to be wife). Frost then entered in Dartmouth college, but didn’t stay for that long because it was to isolated and restless.. He then went back home to take over his mothers eighth-grade class. Although frost was teaching he still made time to write poetry. His first published poem was “My Butterfly : An Elegy.” He then went to go and find the love of his life Elinor White. Elinor had moved to New York to go to school . When Elinor came back to Massachusetts, Frost asked her to marry him and she refused and went back to Canton, New York. Convinced that she was the only one for him, he engaged in an printer and two leather- bound , gold stamped copies of Twilight, each containing five of his poems., and then caught the train to Canton and went to Elinor’s house and knocked on the door, and handed her his gift.. She gave him an unfriendly reception, and Frost was heart broken. Full of pain and feeling crazed, Frost set out to punish Elionor, and make her feel relent. He did all this by going to the Dismal Swamp in Virginia, but on November 30, he found himself back at home in Lawrence Soon after he got back he became a reporter, then returned teaching. Elinor then finished college and was working as a teacher at Frost‘s mother school..Frost kept trying to get with Elinor and before you know it on December 19,1895 they were married ansd had their first son Elliot. After everything seemed to be going good, Frost went back to school at Harvard in hope of becoming a teacher in Latin and Greek. Read more…