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  • Essay / Analysis of Fire and Ice - 674

    Robert Frost was always interested in poetry, even from a young age. He graduated from Lawrence High School at the top of his class with Elinor White, with whom he fell in love. He and Elinor later separated, while he attended Dartmouth College, she attended St. Lawrence University. He and Elinor married a few years later, when they had both graduated and Robert was working different jobs because he was having no luck publishing his poems in the United States. Unable to have any of his poems published, he moved to England in the hope of better luck. Soon after, he managed to gain access to works published in England and news of his works sparked a lot of buzz. While all this was happening, he didn't know that Americans were also beginning to hear about his work. With the start of World War I, he moved his family to the United States where he began teaching at universities, but he was now living the life he had always wanted, a successful poet with a family. Throughout his life he continued to write and publish poems for which he received numerous awards. Frost's writings were inspired by different things, such as the loss of a son and daughter to illness. During this same period, he had struggled to make ends meet running a chicken farm and had difficulty convincing anyone to publish his works. Events like these, as well as his opinions, other major events in his life, his landscape/way of life, and the British poets he had met while traveling between the United States and England inspired him to become a poet. as well as writing his poetry. While in England, a famous poet he befriended was Ezra Pound. Ezra...... middle of paper ......uide/section14/>."Frost, Robert." NCLive.org. EBSCOhost, nd Web. April 1, 2014. Frost, The. “The Biography of Robert Frost.” Poemhunter.com. Np, and Web. April 7, 2014. “Robert Frost.” Poets.org. Academy of American Poets, nd Web. April 2, 2014. “Robert Frost: summary and analysis of the poems. » Robert Frost: Poem Study Guide: Summary and Analysis of “Fire and Ice” (1923). Np, and Web. April 8, 2014. “Robert Frost.” NCLive.org. EBSCOhost, nd Web. April 14. 2001.