My name is Robert Frost and I was born March 26, 1874. I was born in San Francisco. I was named by my father after the South's most famous general Robert E. Lee. My first job was working with my grandfather in the mills. The very first school I attended was the village school in Salem; after that I attended Lawrence High School and was the top student of the class of 1892. I started writing poetry when I was 16 years old. I would constantly just write random words that came to my mind. When I was nineteen I sent my first poem to a magazine called " The Independent."
It got addepted and at that point in my life I knew writing poetry was what I really wanted to do. However, I needed income so I tried writing for the weekly newspaper " The Sentinel". After a few months I quit because I realized that I love writing what I feel, and "The Sentinel" felt more like I was prying into things that were none of my business!! In December 1895 I married the love of my life Elinor White. Soon after we had a son, Eliot, and I began to attend Harvard University hopeing to be able to teach college myself someday. That same year Eliot passed away, so I left Harvard. In 1900, I promised my granfather I would commit myself to working a farm for 10 years, if he would help pay for it. Eventually Elinor, myself, and our new baby daughter moved into a dairy farm in Derry, New Hampshire. I would write when the house was still and everything was quiet. I wrote "Mending Wall" and "October" during this time. Within the next five years I had three more children. During this time the director of the Pinkerton Academy heard me read one of my poems and asked me to teach an English class twice a week, every week. Our family needed the money for food so I agreed. After 10 years we decided to sell our farm and move to England. In 1912 my family and I moved into a small country farmhouse. I took thirty of my poems to a publisher in London, three days later I heard they had been accepted for a book. This is where my professional poet life began!! The books were reprinted in America and in 1914 my family and I returned to America. My inspiration for writing was birches, feilds, and mountains. Soon there after I was asked to teach and numerous colleges and universities, finally my dream of teaching college had come true!! In 1920 I helped sart a college called the Bread Loaf School of English, in Vermont. In 1923, I won a pulitzer Prize for my poem, "New Hampshire" in the years fallowing I won a total of three more. In 1957 I attended a dinner in England, where the incredible T.S. Eliot made a toast!!!!!! When I was 86 years old I read " The Gift Outright" at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy. In the years following I kept writing mainly for pleasure, because it's my favorate thing to do. These are the main points in my life that I think give everyone a pretty good idea of what kind of person I am, and what I love, based on the life that I have lead.Background: travel layout @ HOT FreeLayouts.com MyHotComments
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