Robert Frost
(1874-1963)
- Robert Frost was born in California.
- He spent his first years in the city and then later moved with his family to Massachusetts, where he was surrounded by hills and woods.
- He often uses this rural setting in his poetry, sometimes to present his social and philosophical ideas.
- After Frost finished school he took many jobs but knew that he wanted to be a poet more than anything.
- Frost spent two years at Dartmouth college and Harvard, but left in order to go back to the farm to help support his family (it was during the great depression).
- He nonetheless achieved his dream and became a world famous poet in addition to a scholar and University professor.
- He has was many honors during his lifetime including 4 Pulitzer Prizes.