Facts about Robert Lee Frost

Facts about Robert Lee Frost






A Famous Quote by Robert Lee Frost says - "The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."

Robert Frost won four Pulitzer Prizes. He won each of them in poetry. He received one in 1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943. No poet before him had won as many.

One of Robert Frost's most well known poems is "The Road Not Taken" published in 1916. It is part of the "Mountain Interval" collection. The poem is about a traveler taking the road - less traveled by.

Robert Frost's resented being known as nature poet, he often remarked to people that he wrote only two poems completely based on nature.

The inauguration of President John F. Kennedy was on January 20, 1961. Robert had written a new poem for the event, but when he was unable to read it well and stumbled, he recited a poem from memory instead. The poem he read was "The Gift Outright".

Robert Frost sold the farm and moved his family to a small country farmhouse in England. He took 30 poems to a publisher in London. The publisher accepted his poems and published them as a book in 1913.

Robert Frost's once also said: "Literature begins with geography."

In 1894, when Frost had tried to persuade Elinor to marry him, and gave her the other copy of the Twilight, she had rejected him. Robert Frost destroyed his own copy and half-heartedly tried to commit suicide in the Dismal Swamp.

When Robert Frost sent his poems to The Atlantic Monthly they were returned with this note: "We regret that The Atlantic has no place for your vigorous verse."

Robert Frost married Elinor on December 19, 1895 at Harvard University. Elinor died of a heart attack in 1938.

Four of Robert Frost's six children died before he did.

Although a family man to the core, Robert Frost frequently felt alienated from his wife and children and withdrew into reveries.






Robert Frost had a sister, Jeanie Frost, was born on June 25, 1876. She had mental problems, and Robert committed her to a mental hospital. She died on September 7, 1929.

Robert Frost's suffered from metal depression during his young age.

Robert Frost moved to New England with his mother and sister after his father's death. He was 11 years old at the time.

Robert Frost's grandfather agreed to buy him a farm if he would work on the farm for 10 years. During the day, Robert Frost did chores associated with the farm. At night, he wrote poetry.

For nearly fifty years, until two months before his death, Robert Frost gave poetry readings. They exhausted him both physically and mentally, and were a source of marital conflicts, but he was a great performer, who drew a large audience.

After the death of his wife, Robert Frost became strongly attracted to Kathleen Morrison, married to Theodore Morrison. Robert Frost also composed for her one of his finest love poems, 'A Witness Tree.'

At the time of his death on January 29, 1963, Robert Frost was considered a kind of unofficial poet laureate of the US. "I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world," Frost once said.

- By Sunil R Yadav

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