How Does Robert Frost's Life Affected His Work?

Frost began to develop an interest in writing and poetry and his first poem was published in student magazine of Lawrence High School. He received his high school diploma in 1892 and during that year he started falling in love with poetry. In the year of 1894, he sold his first professional poem, out of the five he had printed, to The Independent for less than twenty dollars. His poem’s publishing was very successful and that inspired him to re-ask Elinor White to be his lawful wedded wife. During the first nine years he spent married to White, Frost would wake up in the early mornings to learn, recite, and write poetry. He was inspired by the nature around him and affected his poems in many ways. They moved to England, and Frost became exposed …show more content…
He was then considered a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1916, and published his third book of poetry, “Mountain Interval” which included “Out, Out,” and “The Road Not Taken.” Henry Holt had then taken the position of Frost’s publisher. Many journalist companies such as the Atlantic Monthly had at first turned Frost down, but now came calling. He taught at Dartmouth and Amherst College, but his most significant association was with the latter. In 1924, he won a Pulitzer Prize in New Hampshire and also received his honorary degree at Yale University. Around seven years later, he received a Russell Loines Poetry Prize and another Pulitzer Prize for collected poems. He received another honorary degree from Dartmouth College two years later, and his third Pulitzer Prize no more than four years after that.(www.frostfriends.org)

Receiving four more honorary degrees at Harvard University, Princeton University, Oxford University, and Cambridge University, he won many awards and medals for Poetry and Distinguished Service. He then became know as Poet Laureate of Vermont and received the Edward MacDowell Medal and the Bollingen Prize in