ROBERT FROST

EARLY YEARS

• Born in Sanfrncisco, California.
• Father- William Prescott Frost Jr.
• Mother- Isabelle Moddie.
• In 1835- his father died of tuberculosis.
• In 1900- his mother died of cancer.
• In 1920- he had to commit his younger sister Jeanie to a mental hospital, where she died nine years later.

ADULT YEARS

• In 1984- he sold his first poem, "My Butterfly. An Elegy"
• In 1835- He married Elinor Miriam White.
• In 1912- He sailed with his family to Great Britain, settling first in Beaconsfeild.
• He returned to America in 1915 and bought a farm in Franconia, New Hampshire, where he launched a career of writing, teaching and lecturing. This farm served as the Frosts' summer home until 1938.
• He and his wife had six children.

TRAGIDIES

• son Elliot (1896–1904, died of cholera)
• daughter Lesley Frost Ballantine (1899–1983)
• son Carol (1902–1940, committed suicide
• daughter Marjorie (1905–1934, died as a result of puerperal fever after childbirth)
• daughter Irma (1903–1967)
• and daughter Elinor Bettina (died just three days after her birth in 1907
• Frost's wife, who had heart problems throughout her life, developed breast cancer in 1937, and died of heart failure in 1938.

Robert Frost's style of poetry was nature. I believe it was inspired in Robert after the deaths of his parents he went through, because it made him realize that nature can never be changed, nor perfectly replicated, and that must have fascinated him and helped hm realize that nature was real, and not something that should be taken lightly.