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Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874 and died in Boston on January 29, 1963.   Frost was considered to be one of America's leading 20th century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize.   He was an essentially pastoral poet who was often associated with rural New England.   Frost wrote poems of a philosophical region.   His poems were traditional but he often said as a dig at his archrival Carl Sandburg, that "he would soon play tennis without a net as write free verse."   Frost said this because he believed he was a pioneer of rhythm and meter and in the poetic use of vocabulary and inflections of everyday life and speech. Frost's poetry is considered to be traditional, experimental, regional, and universal (Robert 1997).
Frost was born of two teachers.   At the age of ten, Frost suffered the loss of his father.   After the death of his father, his mother moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts.   He grew up in a teaching atmosphere, along with its problems.   Early in Frost's school career, he was extremely careless and preferred fun and game to his studies.   In high school, he decided to apply and involve himself in many areas.   He graduated in three years from high school at the head of his class.   After high school he attended Dartmouth and Harvard but ended up not finishing at either due to personal problems (Newdick).
He was destined to be a teacher.   Frost after not making it in college, went to teach at his mother's school in Salem, New Hampshire. In 1912 he went to England to be with his family, and in his publication of North of Boston, in 1914, he was finally hailed as the great artist that he truly was.   After he returned to

America in 1915, he went to Harvard and read a poem for some exercises, and was instantly honored by institutions of higher learning by their conferring degrees on him (Biography).
Throughout Frost's 60 years of existence, he spent 30 of those years teaching a half a dozen subjects.   He has taught in...