Robert Frost Research Paper

The Poetic Story of Robert Frost How many people can write a poem about the world ending, and still make it sound beautiful? Robert Frost was an American poet, whose work is still well known to this day. Throughout Robert Frost’s life, he faced many challenges, but was still able to gain inspiration and become one of the most memorable American poets. Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco (Wooten 11). Robert Frost had a troubled childhood. His parents separated when he was very young, and he was left with his alcoholic father. His father, Will Frost, died when Robert was eleven years old (Wooten 19). After his father’s death, Robert went to live with his mother in Lawrence, Massachusetts (Wooten 21). Frost attended Lawrence High School, where he made excellent grades. He graduated in 1892, sharing the title of valedictorian with his girlfriend, Elinor White (Wooten …show more content…
Frost and his family later moved to Methuen, Massachusetts to start a chicken farm. They later gave up the farm because Frost’s mother was dying of cancer, and she needed to be taken care of. Not long after his mother’s passing, Frost suffered another painful loss: his son , Elliot, died. Those horrible feelings of grief inspired two of Robert Frost’s best poems, “Home Burial” and “Out, Out,___,” (Wooten 50). Frost was also influenced by a classical poet named Horace. Frost also drew inspiration for his poems from the lonely landscapes and culture of Vermont and New Hampshire. Robert Frost’s writing style, “even at it’s simplest, depend upon a certain slyness for which the reader must be prepared” (Costello 1) . The Frosts later moved to England. This was a critical point in Robert Frost’s writing career. He wrote his first two books, A Boy’s Will and North of Boston, in England. Both of those books got very positive reviews and were successful (Wooten