Biography of Robert Lee Frost “A poem begins with a lump in the throat, a home-sickness or a love-sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words” Robert Lee Frost once said. Robert Frost is widely admired and recognized for his literary works. He was an honored poet of the twentieth century. Frost may have lived a troubling life, but that never seemed to interfere with his goals and devotion to writing.Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco. He was the first child of Isabelle Moodie and William Prescott Frost Jr. In the year of 1876, Frost and his family traveled to Lawrence Massachusetts. His sister, Jeanie Florence was born on June 25th. Later that fall, the family returned to San Francisco to find that their father is diagnosed as a consumptive. In 1882 Frost dropped out of school and is home taught. On May 5, 1885 Frost’s father dies of tuberculosis. The family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts to live with grandparents. In the following year the family moved again, this time toSalem Depot, New Hampshire. Frost’s mother began teachingand Robert and Jeanie enter the fifth grade. During 1888and 1889, Robert Lee Frost graduated one year ahead ofthe rest of his class from Lawrence High School. As Frost lived on with his life, he was able to accomplish many literary works and also had to overcome the many deaths of his own family. Frosts first poem “ La Noche Triste” was published in 1890. He later passes examinations to enter Harvard College but because of expenses, he had to go to Dartmouth College. In the fall of that year, he met and fell in love with Elionor Miriam White. They are engaged the following year, and Robert decides to leave Dartmouth in December. His first professional poem “My Butterfly: An Elegy” is pu...
