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 * == ROBERT LEE FROST  ==

Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26, 1874 and died on January 29, 1963. He was born in San Francisco. His mother Isabelle Frost was of Scottish descent and his father, William Prescott Frost Jr. was of English Descent. He left with his mother who was expecting another child because his father was a major drinker and gambler. His sister, Jeanie Florence was born on June 25, 1876 and died in 1929 in a state mental hospital in Maine. He tried to attend many different schools but had to move very shortly after he started because of his mother. He finally gave up at one point and began homeschool but re-entered school after a few years. In 1895 Frost married a former schoolmate named Elinor White and they had six children together. In 1938 his wife died along with four children soon after. His two daughters had mental breakdowns and his son commite suicide. He was a poet and a farmer as well.

In 1897 Robert passes the Havard entrance exam and borrows money from his uncle so he can attend Havard. Two years later he withdrawls form Harvard on March 31. In 1903 he publishes the short story "Trap Nests". Later he impresses the New Hampshire superintendent with his poem "Into Mine". In 1917 Robert accepts an inventation to teach at Amherst College, for a of 2,000 sallary dollars but only teaches one semester. Throught the rest of his life he goes and teaches at different school and he wins a lot of awards. Then he dies on January 29, 1963. ||

Poetry links
[|**Youtube The Road Not Taken**]
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Explication[[image:6a00d83451fc5a69e200e55070c0958833-800wi.jpg width="348" height="152"]]
Explication of "The Road Not Taken'

"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost from ketzle.com (http://www.ketzle.com/frost/roadnot.htm). Is about a man trying to decide on one of two path to take, he tries to see as far as he can see down both the paths but they both curve so he can not see that far down the paths. This poem is a lyric poem. In the fisrt stanza the man wishes he was two persons so he could take both paths so he would not have to decide which path to chose. He also can only see so far down the paths so it increases his lust to be two different persons. In the Second stanza he decides to take the that looks that it has not been traveled on a much as the other road because "having the better claim" is saying that the other road is better and had not been walked on as much as the other. in the third stanza he takes that road because it was traveled on less then the other one and as he does he says "I doubted if I should ever come back" implying that he has made his final choice of taking that road and will not change his mind. In the fourth stanza the path he chose made a big difference in his life, just as some of the choices we make in our life. One path my lead down the right way in life and the other may lead down the wrong path. I like how he relates it to every day life many times we are faced with decision that will effect our life or mabye something not so important, but no matter it is important. I like that everything did not rhyme, if Robert Frost tried to make everything rhyme it would have subtracted for the true meaning which chose the correct path because it makes all the difference.