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[|From Wikimedia Commons] ||> ==  Bi o  ==  He was born in San Fransisco in 1874. His dad was William Prescott Frost Jr. and his mom was Isabelle Moodie Frost. When he was 11 he moved to New Hampshire and became very interested in reading during his high school years in Lawrence, Massachussets. After he went to high school he went to [|Dartmouth] in 1892, then he went to Harvard, but he never earned a degree from either school. After leaving college, he had many different jobs such as a teacher and the editor of the Lawrence //Sentinel.// When he was 21 he married Elinor White. With Elinor's encouragement, he published poems in the Lawrence High School //Bulletin//. His first comercially published poem was "My Butterfly", about the mutuability of natural things. In Septmeber of 1897, Elinor gave birth to a son named Eliot and in 1899 they had a daughter named Lesley. In 1900, Eliot died at four. A few months later, Robert Frost's mother died. Frost lived on a farm for the next 10 years with his family in West Derry, New Hampshire. While living there, he sired three more children: a son named Carol, and two daughters named Irma and Marjorie. He had another daughter, Elinor Bettina, but she died at birth. After that he continued publishing poems, and recieved an honorary degree from Harvard. He died on January 19, 1963. ||
 * ==  Robert Frost   ==

Poetry links
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 * [|The Road Not Taken]
 * [|Fire And Ice]
 * [|To Earthward]
 * [|The Runaway]
 * [|The Grindstone]
 * [|Dust of Snow]
 * [|Fragmentary Blue]
 * [|Hannibal]
 * [|Hannibal]

Explication
Explication of "The Road Not Taken"

In Robert Frost's [|The Road Not Taken], the conflict the poem presents is that of society and peer pressure. The speaker of this poem is Frost himself, and he speaks to everyone. In the poem, Frost finds himself in the woods, confronted with two paths, much like in [|Dante's "Divine Comedy"]. Frost says in lines 19 - 20, "I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." The setting of the peom, as mentioned earlier, is in the woods. It is most likely the season of fall. Forst is compelled to speak now because he has reached a pivotal monent in his life, choosing what is popular or what he thinks to be right. The paths are obvious symbols for choices in life, one being good another being bad. The poem form is narrative, it is just one long stanza, the lines are seven or eight words long, and it doesn't ryhme.

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      Frost, R. (2005, September 6). //Poetrty of Robert Frost//. Retrieved November 18, 2008, from Ketzle.com:         =====

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      [|http://www.ketzle.com/frost/]              Gerber, P. L. (1966). //Robert Frost.// New York: Twayne Publishing, Inc.    =====  " [|Dante Alighieri] [|." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. //Encyclopedia.com.// 8 Dec. 2008 <] [|http://www.encyclopedia.com] [|>.]