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teacher and lecturer wrote many popular and oft-

quoted poems including DzAfter Apple-Pickingdz, DzThe
Road Not Takendz, DzHome Burialdz and DzMending Wall
V he suffered devastating losses in his life including the
untimely deaths of his sister, two of his children and
his wife
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V Robert Lee Frost (named after Southern General

Robert E. Lee)
V born on
 March ˜ in San Francisco, California to
Isabelle Moodie (˜-˜ ) teacher, and William
Prescott Frost Jr. (˜-˜), teacher and journalist.
V After enrolling in Lawrence High School he was soon
writing his own poems including DzLa Noche Tristedz
(˜ ) which was published in the schoolǯs paper.
V He excelled in many subjects including history, botany,
Latin and Greek, and played football, graduating at the
head of his class.
V Frost got his first break as a poet in ˜  when the New
York magazine u    published DzMy Butterfly:
An Elegydz for a stipend of $˜.
V on ˜ December ˜  he married Elinor Miriam White
(˜
-˜ ), his co-valedictorian and sweetheart from
school
V They would have six children together; sons Elliott
(b.˜ -˜ ) and Carol (˜ 
-˜ ) and daughters
Lesley (b.˜ ), Irma (b.˜ ), Marjorie (b.˜ -˜ ),
and Elinor Bettina (˜ -˜ ).
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printer, David Nutt. American publisher Henry Holt
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Prize for Poetry in ˜
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
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V At the Inauguration of American President John F.
Kennedy on
 January ˜ ˜, Frost recited his poem
DzThe Gift Outrightdz (˜ 
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DzThe death of Robert Frost leaves a vacancy in the
American spirit....His death impoverishes us all; but he
has bequeathed his Nation a body of imperishable
verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and
understanding.dz
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TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, ˜

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back. ˜

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and IȄ
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.