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Robert Lee Frost
||> == == Robert Lee Frost, a famous poet, was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. Frost lived in San Francisco until he moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1885 after his fathers death. He graduated from Lawrence High School in 1892. His first poem was published in the Lawrence high school magazine. Later, Frost attended Dartmouth College. In 1894, Robert Frost sold his first poem, "My Butterfly: An Elegy" for fifteen dollars. His poem was published in //The New York Independent//. He then married Elinor Miriam White and went to school at Harvard University. Frost's grandfather purchased the two a farm in Derry, New Hampshire. Frost worked on his farm for nine years and wrote many poems that would later become famous.In 1912, Frost sailed to England and settled outside of London. One year later he published his first book of poetry called //A Boy's Will.// In England, Frost wrote some of his best poetry. At the beginning of World War I, Frost returned to Fransconia, New Hampshire. He than began writing and teaching again. For many years Frost taught at Amherst College. In 1940 he purchased property in Miami, Florida. He called it //Pencil Pines//. Frost spent his winters here for the rest of his life. In 1961, Frost spoke at President Kennedy's inauguration. Two years later, at age 88, Robert Frost passed away from a blood clot. He died in Boston, on January 29, 1963. Frost won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943. His poetry inspires many and is famous throughout the world. 

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Poetry links
http://www.ketzle.com/frost/mountain.html http://www.ketzle.com/frost/birches.htm http://www.internal.org/view_poem.phtml?poemID=104 [|Fire and Ice]


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Explication
** The poem "Fire and Ice" is a very popular poem that was written by Robert Frost and was published in his book called, "New Hampshire" in 1923. This poem was taken from internal.org. "Fire and Ice" is a nine line symbolic poem about the end of the world. He explains the world ending by the forces of fire and ice. The first two lines of the poem give two choices of how the world might end. In lines three and four of the poem Frost compares the force of fire to the emotion, desire. This is a good comparison because humans' desires can grow, just as the flame of a fire can grow. In lines six and seven he compares ice to the emotion hate. Frost says that he would hold with those who favor fire. This means that he would rather have the world end in fire. Frost expresses his opinion on both forces. Frost says that they are both equally powerful. In the last line Frost says that both would suffice, or satisfy or meet a need. What he is saying by, "But if I had to perish twice, we think i know enough hate to say the destruction of ice is also great" is that there is a great amount of hate in the world and it is equal to the amount of desire. We thought this poem was very good symbolically because Frost makes a good comparison between fire and desire. We did not understand the comparison between ice and hate as well. The poem makes sense expressing the powers of both forces and how they symbolize things in our world today that could eventually lead to the end of the world. **

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<span style="color: rgb(255, 15, 0);">Sources
"Robert Frost". The Literature Network. December 9, 2008 <http://www.online-literature.com/frost/>. "Robert Frost". Wikipedia. December 8, 2008 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost>. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">