How Did Robert Frost Commit Suicide

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Robert Frost once said, “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” This is an extremely relatable quote when talking about Frost’s poetry because his home is the setting and background for most of his poems. Frost was named after the famous Confederate General Robert E. Lee. At one point in his life, Frost had debated whether or not he should commit suicide, which will be discussed later in this essay. In addition, Robert Frost, who had lost his father at the age of eleven and also many of his children, is the best poet of his time because he used such modern language even though he was criticized for not following the current fashion in poetry. Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco,

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