After graduating from high school, Frost had studied at Dartmouth College （达特茅斯学院）(in 1893), but remained less than 1 semester. Returning to Massachusetts, he taught school and worked in a mill and as a newspaper reporter.
Honors



4 Pulitzer Prizes(普利策奖 ) read poetry at a presidential inauguration. received honorary degrees from 44 colleges unofficial Poet Laureate, one of the most celebrated American‟s modernist poets


After his marriage, Frost studied at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1897~1899), but left without receiving a degree due to family problems and poor health.
Robert Frost
Brief Introduction
Main works
Writing style
Analysis of Desert Places
Robert Frost was a great poet who was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. Though born in America, he came of New England stock(血统), his ancestors for nine generations being New Englanders and living in Lowell, Massachusetts （洛厄尔马萨诸塞州 ）. When Robert was 11 his father died, and the family moved to Massachusetts in New England where his mother taught to earn a living.
There he wrote many of the poems contained in his fourth collection of poetry New Hampshire 《新罕布什尔》(1923) which won him the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923.
《少年的心愿》 《波士顿以北》 《山间低地》 《新罕布仕尔》 《西去的溪流》 《诗集》 《山外青山》 《见证树》 《绒毛绣线菊》 《理性假面具》 《仁慈假面具》
1913 1914 1916 1923 1928 1930 1935 1942 1947 1945 1947
Literary Style
Profound meanings are hidden underneath the plain language and simple form.
(1) His poems mostly wrote about nature (influence from Wordsworth and Emerson) and New England landscape. (2) He used simple language, a graceful style, and traditional forms of poetry. (reason for popular)

Robert Frost died on the 29th of January 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts. He lies buried in the family plot in the Old Bennington Cemetery behind the Old First Congregational Church near Shaftsbury, Vermont.
Marriage and Children

In 1895 he married Elinor White , who became a major inspiration in his poetry, and then the newlyweds continued to teach, which Frost always enjoyed .

Elliott (b.1896-1900) Carol (1902-1940) Lesley (b.1899), Irma (b.1903), Marjorie (b.1905-1934), Elinor Bettina (1907-1907). In 1900 Elliot died of cholera In 1907 Elinor Bettina died just one day after birth In 1934 his beloved daughter Marjorie died after the birth of her first child In 1938 his wife Elinor died of a heart attack. In 1940 Carol committed suicide.
Back to America 1915.2
In 1915 Frost came back to the United States. While devoting himself to poetry he taught at Amherst College (阿默斯特)to support himself.
(3) Symbolism (He used symbols from everyday life to express profound ideas. )
(4) Frost wrote rural poetry in the pastoral tradition as a way to understand modern life. (In his poems, traditional elements and modern elements mingle together.)
Complete Poems



A Boy’s Will North of Boston Mountain Interval New Hampshire West-Running Brook Collected Poems A Further Range A witness Tree Steeple Bush A Masque of Reason A Masque of Mercy
(5) Many people tend to think of Frost as an optimistic “country philosopher” and his poems as simple, ordinary nature poems. (6) Frost's poems show deep appreciation of natural world and sensibility about the human aspirations.
When he was as old as eighty-seven, two years before his death, he was chosen to read one of his poems, “The Gift Outright” (1942) at the inauguration of the late President John F. Kennedy.
In 1900, his grandfather bought him a farm in New Hampshire (新罕布什 尔州) from which he wrested a living，supplemented by teaching, for 12 years.

This was no doubt an important period in his development, for he was distinctly and almost exclusively the poet of the New England countryside and country people.
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“The death of Robert Frost leaves a vacancy in the American spirit....His death impoverishes us all; but he has bequeathed his Nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding.”
Move to England 1912.8.24
In 1912, at the age of 38, Frost decided to try to make a new start. He sold the farm and used the proceeds to take his family to England, where he became acquainted with the F.S. Flint, Edward Thomas, and Ezra Pound, who called Frost‟s poems “modern georgics(田园诗)". Fortunately he had his first two volumes of verse, A Boy’s Will 《孩子的意 愿》 (for which he got a review from the famous American expatriate poet Ezra Pound), and North of Boston 《波士顿以 北》published in London with the help of Ezra Pound.