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Julie Brown
Eng 113
Y. Latif
March 4, 2002
Robert Frost-Farmer, Teacher, and Poet
Robert Lee Frost was not only a great poet, he was also a farmer and teacher to many. He was born March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. He was the son of a politician named William Prescott Frost, Jr., and a schoolteacher named Isabelle Moodie. Frost's father passed away on May 5, 1885 when Frost was eleven, leaving his family with no financial support.
Robert Frost attended high school, where he excelled, from 1888-1892 where he met his future wife, Elinor Miriam White. Frost wrote his first poem in 1890 while sitting at his grandmother's kitchen table, a poem for Elinor, which was printed in the Lawrence High School Bulletin. Both he and Elinor were co-valedictorians their graduating year. Frost knew he wanted to be a teacher like his mother.
Frost went off to Dartmouth College, where he spent a few months, and then left without notifying the school. He quit school, and started to work in a textile mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He also taught Latin in his mother's school in Methuen, Massachusetts. While he was working and teaching, Elinor was attending college. In 1895, after she obtained a degree, they got married. They both were teachers. At this time Frost still did not have a degree. In 1897 he attended Harvard University for 2 years, again leaving without a degree. It was apparent college was not for him, and he never returned to college as a student. Although Frost was concerned about college, he became a family man. In September of 1896, Frost had his first son, Eliot, who later died
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in 1909. Frost had four other children, Lesley born in 1899, Carol born in 1902, Irma born in 1903, and Marjorie born in 1905.
The Frost family lived on farms their whole life. Frost was a...
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