2. Robert Frost
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March
26, 1874. He moved to New England at the age of
eleven and became interested in reading and writing
poetry during his high school years in
Lawrence, Massachusetts. He was enrolled at
Dartmouth College in 1892, and later at
Harvard, though he never earned a formal degree.
3. Robert Frost
Frost drifted through a string of occupations after
leaving school, working as a teacher, cobbler, and
editor of the Lawrence Sentinel. His first professional
poem, "My Butterfly," was published on November
8, 1894, in the New York newspaper The Independent.
4. Robert Frost
In 1895, Frost married Elinor Miriam White, who
became a major inspiration in his poetry until her
death in 1938.
Frost was influenced by such contemporary British
poets as Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, and Robert
Graves. While in England, Frost also established a
friendship with the poet Ezra Pound, who helped to
promote and publish his work.
5. Robert Frost
By the time Frost returned to the United States in
1915, he had published two full-length collections, A
Boy's Will and North of Boston, and his reputation was
established. By the nineteen-twenties, he was the most
celebrated poet in America, and with each new
book, his fame and honors (including four Pulitzer
Prizes) increased.
6. Robert Frost
About Frost, President John F. Kennedy said, "He has
bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse
from which Americans will forever gain joy and
understanding."
Robert Frost lived and taught for many years in
Massachusetts and Vermont, and died in Boston on
January 29, 1963.
7. The Road Not Taken Then took the other, as just as
fair, And having perhaps the better
claim, Because it was grassy and
wanted wear; Though as for that the
"The Road Not Taken“, one of Frost’s passing there Had worn them really
most popular works, was published in about the same,
1915 in the collection Mountain
Interval. It is the first poem in the volume And both that morning equally lay In
and is printed in italics. The title is often leaves no step had trodden black.
mistakenly given as "The Road Less Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Traveled", from the penultimate line: "I Yet knowing how way leads on to
took the one less traveled by". way, I doubted if I should ever come
back.
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN I shall be telling this with a sigh
TWO roads diverged in a yellow Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two
wood, And sorry I could not travel both roads diverged in a wood, and I—I
And be one traveler, long I stood And took the one less traveled by, And that
looked down one as far as I could To has made all the difference.
where it bent in the undergrowth;
