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Julie Brown

Eng 113

Y. Latif

March 4, 2002

Robert Frost-Farmer, Teacher, and Poet

Robert Lee Frost was not only a great poet, he was also a farmer and teacher to many. He was born March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. He was the son of a politician named William Prescott Frost, Jr., and a schoolteacher named Isabelle Moodie. Frost's father passed away on May 5, 1885 when Frost was eleven, leaving his family with no financial support.
Robert Frost attended high school, where he excelled, from 1888-1892 where he met his future wife, Elinor Miriam White. Frost wrote his first poem in 1890 while sitting at his grandmother's kitchen table, a poem for Elinor, which was printed in the Lawrence High School Bulletin. Both he and Elinor were co-valedictorians their graduating year. Frost knew he wanted to be a teacher like his mother.
Frost went off to Dartmouth College, where he spent a few months, and then left without......

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