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Research Project: The Life and Works of Robert Frost. . Vanessa Tejada English 1. Mr. Wright Everett High School 2010. Thesis. Robert Frost dealt with many tragedies in his life and he was still able to write the fascinating poems we read today. . EARLY LIFE.
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Research Project: The Life and Works of Robert Frost. Vanessa Tejada English 1. Mr. Wright Everett High School 2010
Thesis • Robert Frost dealt with many tragedies in his life and he was still able to write the fascinating poems we read today.
EARLY LIFE • Topic Sentence: Robert Frost did a lot of moving during his early life.
EARLY LIFE • Frost was born in the year 1874 in San Francisco, California. • He lost his father William Prescott Frost JR. to tuberculosis at age eleven. • Robert and his family moved to Lawrence, MA where he got a good education from his paternal grandfather, William Prescott Frost. • Frost graduated from a high school in 1892.
EARLY LIFE • He attended Dartmouth college for a few months. • Robert worked in a textile mill and was teaching latin at a school that was his mothers in Mathuen,MA. • Frost over the next decade worked at a lot of places.
YOUNG ADULT • Topic Sentence: In Frost’s young adult years, he began his family and career.
YOUNG ADULT • From 1897-1899 Robert studied at Harvard but left soon before getting a degree. • He left for Derry, New Hampshire. There Robert worked being a cobbler, farmer, and a teacher at Pinkerton Academy . • Robert married Elinor White and they had six children.
YOUNG ADULT • His First poem “My Butterfly” was published by the New York Independent in 1894. • Continuing to publish and compose his poems in magazines. • He tried to get his poems accepted again so he sent them to “The Atlantic Monthly”. When they wrote back they said “We regret that the Atlantic has no place for your vigorous verse.” • Robert sold his farm in 1812 and moved himself along with his family to England.
EARLY CAREER • Topic Sentence: Frost had a hard time trying to get his poems witnessed in his early career.
EARLY CAREER • Frost published his first poems collection- “A Boy’s Will” in England. (B) • After “A Boy’s Will” Robert published “North Boston” in 1914 which became internationally popular. (B) • “North Boston” had some of Robert’s best poems: “Mending Wall”, “The Death of the Hired Man”, “Home Burial”, “A Servant to Servants”, “After Apple Picking”, and “The Wood-pile.” (B)
EARLY CAREER • Frost and his family moved back to the U.S and was Known “As a leading voice of the new poetry.” (C) • A year later Frost was made Kappa at Harvard and elected in the National Institute of Arts and letters. (C) • “Mountain Interval” showed Robert’s best poems also like “Birches”, “Out,Out—”, “The Hill Wife”, and “An Old Man’s Winter Night.” (C) • Robert got an invitation from Tufts college to be it’s “Phi Beta Kappa Poet.” (C)
HIGHLIGHTS OF CAREER • Topic Sentence: During this part of Robert’s life he began to settle down and teach at Colleges.
HIGHLIGHTS OF CAREER • In 1917 at Amherst Frost was able to teach whatever subjects he wanted at a congenial college. (C)
Works Cited • "Frost's Life and Career--by William H. Pritchard and Stanley Burnshaw." Welcome to English. Web. 29 Jan. 2010. <http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/frost/life.htm>. • "Robert Frost Biography - Robert Frost Childhood, Life & Timeline." Lifestyle Lounge - Online Lifestyle Magazine - Lifestyle Management Tips. Web. 1 Jan. 2010. <http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/robert-frost-biography-4816.html>. • "Robert Frost Biography." Famous Poets and Poems - Read and Enjoy Poetry. Web. 27 Jan. 2010. <http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/robert_frost/biography>. • "Robert Frost." Robert Frost. Web. 4 Feb. 2010. <http://www.peotryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=2361>. • "Robert Frost." Www.kirjasto.sci.fi. Web. 27 Jan. 2010. <http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rfrost.htm>. • Web.
