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Robert Frost was born this day in San Fransisco. His parents were William Jr. and Isabelle Frost.
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Robert's father, William died when Robert was eleven. And the family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts.
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Robert graduated from high school and then enrolled into Dartmouth, but only for a few months. This is because Dartmouth was expensive.
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This was Robert's first professional poem. It was published in the New York newspaper- The Independent.
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Frost married Elinor White. They moved to Derry, New Hamphire.
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Over the next two years, Robert Frost attended Harvard.
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Robert and Elinor had a son, but he died in 1900. He lost four more children, and two of his daughters had mental breakdowns, and his son committed suicide.
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From 1892 to 1902 Robert took many different jobs including teaching Latin at his mother's school, being a cobbler and a farmer.
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He had two published collections- A Boy's Will and North of Boston.
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The gray grass is not dappled with the snow;
Its two banks have not shut upon the river;
But it is long ago—
It seems forever—
Since first I saw thee glance,
With all the dazzling other ones,
In airy dalliance,
Precipitate in love,
Tossed, tangled, whirled and whirled above,
Like a limp rose-wreath in a fairy dance. -
This is one of Robert Frost's most famous poems published in 1923.
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow. The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep. -
Here come real stars to fill the upper skies,
And here on earth come emulating flies,
That though they never equal stars in size,
(And they were never really stars at heart)
Achieve at times a very star-like start.
Only, of course, they can't sustain the part. -
Robert was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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Robert's wife Elinor died in 1938 from heart failure.
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He won an award from the U.S. Senate.
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He recieved tributes from this University.
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Frost was made poetry consultant for the Library of Congress.
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He got the Congressional Gold Medal.
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Robert suffered from an embolism on January 7th, and died 22 days later. He died in Boston, Massachusetts
