Robert Frost Accomplishments

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Robert Lee Frost a farmer, a poet, and a very well known man. Frost has had many losses, yet many achievements in his lifetime. He has had a surplus amount of jobs but, poetry is the one principal that he was the most superb in doing also one of the aspects of his life he loved the most. Winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and a special guest at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration Frost became a well-known poet. He died of complications of a surgery on January 29, 1963. Robert Frost was born March 26, 1892, in San Francisco, California. He remained there for eleven years and this is the age he was when his father William Prescott Jr. passed away from tuberculosis. Frost his mother and, his only sister named Jeanie Frost moved to Lawrence Massachusetts. …show more content…

After this occurred Elinor and Robert had four more other children. A son named Carol born in 1902, who committed suicide in 1940, Irma born in 1903 who later on developed a mental illness, Marjorie born in 1905 who passed away later on in her 20s giving birth, and lastly Elinor who was born in 1907 and she passed away just a few weeks after being born. In addition during this time, Elinor and Frost tried to achieve many things like farming but was not very successful. However, in the impending events, Frost is to be very successful in poetry. Despite many challenges, it was during this time when Frost transcended the most in his poetry writing. He began to set many of his poems in nature settings. In 1940, Frost is invited to read a selection of his poetry at Tufts College as a Phi Beta Kappa poet. Frost is starting to get recognized more for poetry as he starts to write more in his poetry career. Also, more of his works are starting to get published. Robert served as a consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress for a year remaining there from 1958 to 1959. Through most of his poetry was about his landscape of England and about his life. Frost was honored on his eighty-fifth birthday. Friends and his publishers celebrated with him in New York City. In 1960, Congress awarded Frost the Congressional