Robert Frost is considered one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. Many authors from different backgrounds influenced him. His works are simple enough for the general public to understand, but are complex enough to ponder over for hours at a time. From his first published poem to his last, Robert Frost has touched the hearts of people from all over the world. Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. He was the son of William Prescott Frost and Isabelle Moodie. Frost was named after Confederate general Robert E. Lee because of his father’s strong democratic political views. His father died later on in 1885 from tuberculosis. Before his death however, he requested that he be buried in Lawrence, …show more content…
Frost then dropped out of Dartmouth before he had completed his first semester there. Two years later in 1885 he married Elinor Miriam White. Frost worked a number of odd jobs while trying to support his family, all the while writing poems and sending them off to newspaper and magazine editors. From 1897 to 1899 he attended Harvard University as a special student. Then a turning point happened in Robert Frost’s life, a doctor warned him that his chronically precarious physical condition suggested the threat of tuberculosis. The doctor then suggested that he move to the countryside. Because of this suggestion Frost and his family of three daughters and one son moved to Derry, New Hampshire and started farming (13). Even while farming Frost continued to write poem after poem. After farming from 1900 to 1905 he taught various subjects at the Pinkerton Academy in Derry from 1906 to 1911. Years later in the autumn of 1912 he sailed to England with his family to take one last chance at the literacy life. He wrote many poems while in England and in 1915 moved back to the United States because of World War 1. When Robert Frost and his family made it to the United States his poems