Robert+Frost

[|"All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech."] In 1895 he married a old schoolmate, named Elinor White. They had six children. From 1897 to 1899, Harvard is where Frost studied, but he left without receiving a college degree. He worked as a cobbler, farmer, and an teacher at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire where he moved after Harvard. In 1912, after selling his farm, he took his family to England. There is where he published his first hoard of poems. The poems were some of Frost's best-known like "Mending Wall," "The Death of the Hired Man," "Home Burial," "A Servant to Servants," "After Apple-Picking," "The Wood-Pile". These poems were written in Blank verse or looser free verse of dialogue. Also, the poems were from his own life, repeated losses, everyday tasks, and his aloneliness.

Frost's farm in Derry, NH

In 1915, Frost and his family returned the US. Frost purchased a farm around Franconia, New Hampshire. Frost taught at Amherst College from (1916-1938) and Michigan universities. In 1916, he was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and on the same year he finished his third collection called "MOUNTAIN INTERVAL". This collection contained poems such as "The Road Not Taken," "The Oven bird," etc.

Frost bought another farm in South Shaftsbury, Vermont, close to Middlebury college where he co-founded the Bread Loaf School > > The Bread Loaf School for English > > Elinor Frost, Frost's wife died in 1938 and lost his four children. Two of his daughters had mental breakdowns, and the son Carol, was an depressed poet and farmer, committed suicide. After his wife died, he fell in love with his secretary and adviser named Kay Morrison. Frost composed her one of his best love poems,"A Witness Tree." > Frost travelled with his biographer Lawrance Thompson to England, Israel, and Greece from (1957 to 1961). Robert Frost partake the opening of President John Kennedy in 1961. Then in 1962 Frost travelled to the Soviet Union as a member of a goodwill group. > > Robert Frost read this poem at President JFK's inauguration on January 20, 1961. > The Gift Outright >
 * Major Themes:
 * alienation from his environment
 * Man is alone in the countryside
 * lady suffers from a terrible sense of self-alienation, as well as alienation from her surroundings.
 * Man is always erecting and trying to bring down barriers-- between man and environment, between man and man

Influences:
 * Henry thoreau
 * Ralph Emerson
 * Robert Browning
 * William Wordsworth
 * The Bible

Awards: >
 * **1924:** Got Pulitzer Prize for 'New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace
 * **1931:** Got Pulitzer Prize for 'Collected Poems'
 * **1937:** Got Pulitzer Prize for 'A Further Range'
 * **1943:** Got Pulitzer Prize for 'A Witness Tree'

Awards tributes by:
 * (1950) U.S Senate
 * (1953) American Academy of Poets
 * (1956) New York University
 * (1958) Huntington Hartford Foundation
 * (1962) Congressional Gold Medal
 * (1962) Edward MacDowell Medal
 * In 1930 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Amherst College awarded him Lecturer for Life (1949)
 * (1958) made poetry consultant for the Library of Congress.

Robert Frost died on January 29, 1963 and had six children all together. Elliot (1896-1904), Lesley Frost (1899-1983), Carol (1902-1940), Irma (1903-1967), Marjorie (1905-1934), died of Puerperal Fever. Elinor Bettina (1907) died three days after birth. Lesley and Irma are the only ones that outlived their father. His wife Elinor developed breast cancer in 1937, and later died from heart failure in 1938. References: @http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Robert_Frost.a

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