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Robert Frost
Up until 1895, Frost spent his time with multiple jobs including a cobbler,
teacher, and farmer. One day after climbing up long, twisted ladders at the mill he
worked at, Frost wrote his first “real” poem, “My Butterfly” (“Robert Frost”).
Tragedy from either his illness or the death of a few of his children played an
important role in his life and impacted the tone of some of his writing. Moving to
England was a turning point for Frost and his family. He “considered the nation to
be a birthplace of great literary tradition and
poetry” (“Robert Frost”). There he met a man
named Ezra Pound who helped him to complete “A
Boy‟s Will, a collection of mainly autobiographical
poems published in 1913” (“Robert Frost”). These
poems were the building blocks to later poems that
included popular “natural elements, such as…stars,
clouds, and leaves” (“Robert Frost”). North of
Boston (1914) was his next published work in
England that represented “New England as more
that just Boston‟s industrial, cultural, and shipping
center” (“Robert Frost”).