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    Robert Frost is known for his very different types of writing. Robert was one of the most famous writers of his time. He created poems that made people think about what he wrote. Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. Frost's parents were William Prescott Frost, Jr. and Isabelle Moodie Frost. Her only sibling was named Jeanie. William Prescott Frost, Jr. was a journalist who had ambitions to make a career in California, and in 1873 he and his wife moved to San Francisco. He died of tuberculosis in 1885. While their mother taught at various schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, Robert and Jeanie grew up in Lawrence, and Robert graduated from high school in 1892. One of the top students in his class, he shared the honors of the major. with Elinor White, with whom he had already fallen in love (Frost 1). For several years, Robert Frost's mother earned her living teaching in various schools; from Salem, New Hampshire, she undoubtedly had a profound influence on her son's development (O'Neill 3). After studying briefly at Dartmouth, he worked as a bobbin boy in a cotton mill, as a shoemaker, a school teacher, and a journalist; he then entered Harvard but left after two years to try his hand at farming. In 1912, he traveled to England, where he received his first praise as a poet (Frost 2). In 1892, Robert Frost graduated from Lawrence High School as class poet and co-valedictorian with a sensitive and brilliant young girl named Elinor Miriam White, whom he married three years later. His paternal grandfather, however, was eager to turn this gifted young man into a lawyer and persuaded him to enter Dartmouth College in the fall of 1892. Throughout these years he wrote poems which he continued... ...in the middle of his paper. .... of his distinct poetic moods can explore many possible attitudes toward human experience, his poems repeatedly return to an implicit attitude of devout reverence and belief, which constitute the unerring core of his work (O'Neill 5). Overall, Robert Frost is one of the most important writers of his time. His writings were very different from others because they meant something to others. He will be remembered for the poems he wrote. Works Cited Frost, Robert. “Britannica Biographies.” Encyclopedia Britannica, 2014.Web.May 2, 2014. Frost, Robert. "On Robert Frost". Critical Insights.3-11Frost, Robert. “Online World Book InfoFinder. World Book, 6th edition, September 2103.Web.April 30, 2014 Frost, Robert. “Online World Book InfoFinder. World Book, 2014.Web.May 2, 2014.O'Neill, James Norman. Robert Frost. Salem: Salem Press, January 2003.