My Butterfly : An Elegy

Robert Frost is a well-known American poet from San Francisco but moved to New England (poets.org). There Frost would learn to love reading and writing poems in high school, in which he would attend college to get a formal degree in (poets.org). In 1895, Frost would marry Elinor White and move to England to pursue his dreams of getting his poems published (poets.org). Frost would then move back to New England and would make his work primarily associated with the lifestyle and landscape of New England (poets.org).

On May 26th of 1874, in the city of San Fransisco, California, Robert Lee Frost was born to Scottish immigrant and father William Prescott Frost Jr. and mother Isabelle Moodle as the first of two children born to the Frost family; the second child of the Frost family, a daughter, Jeanie Frost was born a little over two years after Frost in 1876. About eleven years after his birth and nine years after the birth of his younger sister, Frost’s father died due to tuberculosis-a bacterial disease that affects the lungs-on May 5th of 1885. Shortly after his fathers death, the remaining members of the Frost family moved to the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, where frost would eventually attend and graduate Lawrence High School as co-valedictorian alongside Elenor Miriam White-the woman who Frost would eventually marry in December of 1895-at the age of 18 in 1992. On the same year of hid graduation, Frost moved to the town of Hanover, New Hampshire to attend Dartmouth University, however, he moved back to Lawrence to work not even two months into the semester; once he returned to Massachusetts, Frost worked as an eighth grade school teacher in the city of Methuen, until 1895, when he took a job as a reporter for a news paper for a short time.

Robert Frost was the son of Isabelle Moodie Frost and William Prescott Frost Jr. He was born in San Francisco California and lived an unstable life there till he found stability in his adult life. He married Elinor White and started a stable lifestyle and family of his own. Frost was a teacher and a philosopher. He published his first book at the age of 39 and continued his writing career for nearly 50 years. Frost was the first poet to read at a presidential inauguration and one of the first to transform poetry and change the world of literature” (Fagan).

Even though he is well known as a New Englander, Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California in 1874. Frost wrote about rural New England life, and also about the many jobs he had prior to writing as a career. Being one of the most well known poets of the 20th century

When his father died in 1885 he moved to Massachusetts with his mom and sister. He spent his whole life in the Massachusetts area. “Frost attended high school in that state, and then Dartmouth College, but remained less than one semester” (Michalowski). “At the age of thirty-eight, Frost decided to move his family to England. While in England his first book, A Boy’s Will, was published in 1913. A few years later he returned to America where his second book, North of Boston, was published.” (Michalowski) “Massachusetts and other New England areas were the setting for the majority of Frost’s poetry. The nature in the New England area played a big role in his life and influenced his poetry a lot.” (Sweeny and Lindroth 7)

Robert was born in San Francisco, California on March 26th, 1874. His parents, William Prescott Frost and Isabelle Moodie were both teachers (“Robert” 1). William and Isabelle met while they were both teaching in Pennsylvania and fell in love. In 1884 William Frost died, leaving his wife and son on their own. The family struggles financially since they were only receiving one check instead of two (Encyclopedia 1). Throughout elementary and middle school, Robert surprisingly didn’t like going to school. He would have rather been playing football or baseball with his friends. His mother made him realize the importance of an education just in time for high school (American 1).

Robert Frost was born March 26, 1874 at San Francisco, California and died January 29, 1963 at Boston, Massachusetts. Frost was an educator and poet. He is widely known for his poetry; some of Frost’s famous work includes The Road Not Taken, Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening, Mending Wall, and Out, Out─. Out, Out─ tells a story of a young boy cutting wood to help provide for his family. He then acquires an injury on his hand by the saw. The boy ends up dying due to the severity of his wound. His family returns to their duties. This poem uses many elements to emphasize death. Robert Frost uses the poetic elements of imagery, figures of speech, and symbolism to illustrate the theme of death in the poem Out, Out─.

Robert Frost was born in San Francisco California in 1874, March 26. His poems were inspired by British poets and also inspired by nature. Many of his poems and quotes have a deep meaning to them and it has made me wonder what people of today’s era think Robert Frost’s poems and quotes mean. Back in 1913 when Robert Frost first published his book of poems, society was still religious. Many of the people back then were focused on God’s messages and this has an effect on how people could have interpreted his work.

Elinor White, and they were co-valedictorian's. He proposed to Elinor but she refused his original proposal. Frost went on to attend Dartmouth College and Elinor to St. Lawrence University. Frost left Dartmouth, without graduating, and worked on his writing. He was published for the first time, in 1894, in The Independent. After Elinor graduated Frost proposed again, and the pair were married. They got married in Lawrence, MA on December 19, 1895 and together they had six children whose names were Elliot, Lesley, Carol, Irma, Majorie, and Elinor. He later returned to college at Harvard, where he studied for two years until he had to leave due to illness. In 1912, Frost;s grandfather gave Robert and his family a farm in Derry, New Hampshire where the family became poultry farmers. After 12 years, the family made the decision to move to England ("Robert Frost Biography.com"). Along with writing poems he was also a playwright and enjoyed writing plays just as much as he liked writing poems but did not see the same success in play writing as he saw in poetry Robert Frost is mostly known as a famous poet who is often quoted; for example, a famous quote is, "two roads diverged in a yellow

Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, California. He spent the first 11 years of his life there, until his journalist father, William Prescott Frost Jr., died of tuberculosis. Following his father's passing, Frost moved with his mother and sister, Jeanie, to the town of Lawrence, Massachusetts. They moved in with his grandparents, and Frost attended Lawrence High School, where he met his future love and wife, Elinor White, who was his co-valedictorian when they graduated in 1892.

The early and later life of Robert Frost was entailed with many hardships that influenced a variety of themes and key concepts within his works such as thematic ideas surrounding the simple pleasures taken for granted in life until they disappear, evident in Frost's poem "Birches," and city life opposed to farm life, evident in "Acquainted with the Night." Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California to William Prescott Frost Jr and Isabelle Moody Frost. The two had on other child, Jeanie Frost, in 1876 when their son was two. Frost childhood was pervaded with hardships stemming mostly from the actions of his father. Frost's father was an alcoholic who drank and gambled the family's funds into oblivion while exercising

Robert Lee Frost attended Harvard University from 1897 to 1899 but he did not receive a degree, he left early due to illness. One of his most notable works was, A Boy’s Will, North of Boston, the beginning was A Boy’s Will and it was first published in 1913. The second half, North of Boston, was published in 1914. Both these collections were a two volume series

William Prescott Frost, a journalist, married Isabelle moodie who later became the parents of Robert Lee Frost. Just when Robert was eleven years old he moved acrossed the country to Lawrence, Massachusetts. Roberts cross country trip was only due to the unfortunate sudden passing of his father, who was sick with tuberculosis. Roberts father had wished to be buried there. After Frost was settled into his new life, he attended Lawrence high school where he discovered his passion for poetry. Along with discovering

Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco. When his father died, he moved to Massachusetts with his family to be closer to his grandparents. He loved to stay active through sports and activities such as trapping animals and climbing trees. He married his co- valedictorian, Elinor Miriam White, in 1895. He dropped out of both Dartmouth and Harvard in his lifetime. Robert and Elinor settled on a farm in Massachusetts which his grandfather bought him, and it was one of the many farms on which he would live in throughout his life. Frost spend the next 9 years writing poetry while poultry farming. When poultry farming didn’t work out, he went back to teaching English. He moved to England in 1912 and became friends with many people who were also in the writing business. After moving back to America in 1915, Frost bought a farm in New Hampshire and began reading his poems aloud at public

In order to understand where Robert Frost is coming from in his poetry it is important to learn about the experiences in his life. Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco. His father was from