Short poems of robert frost

His family was from New England. Frost's mother was a poetess herself and wanted to name her son after Robert Burns, the great Scot poet Frost's mother was a Scot. As a child, Frost was sickly and neurotic Frost's father died of tuberculosis when Frost was only eleven and the mother was apprehensive of a similar fate for him. Frost with his family went to New England to have his father's remains buried there.

They had to settle down in Salem in New Hampshire because they had no money to return. Robert Frost To support the family, Frost's mother took up a teaching job. Frost joined Dartsmouth College in As early as his schooling in Lawrence High School, Frost displayed an intense pleasure in scholarship. From onwards Frost tried to supplement his mother's meager income with whatever he could earn.

For this, he did any kind of job from working in mills to newspaper reporting. However, he wrote poetry whenever he found time. The year saw the publication of his first poem My Butterfly in New York Independent and not very late after that he published six of his poems in a booklet entitled Twilight. In , Robert Frost married his school-fellow Elinor White and tried to settle down as a school teacher.

He spent two years as a student at Harvard College, preparing himself for college teaching.

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Then he felt that the academic atmosphere was not congenial to him. He tried to settle down to poultry farming. In , he suffered a severe and almost fatal attack of pneumonia - so much so that his doctor and Frost himself considered his survival a miracle.