Learn some quick facts about
Robert Frost.
This week’s famous poet
is Robert Frost. Last week’s famous
poet was John Keats.
Robert Frost was a famous
poet and teacher. He wrote over two-hundred and forty poems. He was born in San
Francisco, California. His parents’ names are William Prescott Frost Jr. and
Isabelle Moodie. He had one sibling.
Continue reading to find
out more about Robert Frost.
Here is a list of some
poems by Robert Frost:
- Ghost House
- October
- Storm Fear
- Asking for Roses
- Blueberries
- Good Hours
- Christmas Trees
- The Telephone
- The Moon
- A Time to Talk
Do you like poetry?
Quick facts about Robert
Frost:
1. He was born on March 26, 1874 in San
Francisco, California. He died on January 29, 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts. He
was eighty-eight years old. He died from a pulmonary embolism that caused a
heart attack. He is buried at the Old Bennington Cemetery in Bennington,
Vermont.
2. His father died when he was eleven years
old. His father died from tuberculous.
3. The following is one of Robert Frost’s
poems:
A Time to Talk
When a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk,
I don’t stand still and look around
On all the hills I haven’t hoed,
And shout from where I am, ‘What is it?’
No, not as there is a time talk.
I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,
Blade-end up and five feet tall,
And plod: I go up to the stone wall
For a friendly visit.
(You
can print out a worksheet on this poem. You will fill in the missing words in
the poem)
4. Robert Lee Frost was named after Robert E.
Lee. Robert E. Lee was a general in the confederate army. Robert Lee Frost’s
parents were both in education (teachers) so they decided to honor Robert Lee
by naming their son after him.
5. In 1892 he graduated from Lawrence High School.
He attended Dartmouth College for about two months. In 1897 he went to Harvard
University. In 1899 he had to leave Harvard because he was ill.
6. Robert Frost had only one sibling. Her
name was Jeanie Frost. He had to have her committed to a mental hospital in
1920.
7. Robert Frost married Elinor Miriam White
and they had six children. Elinor died on March 20, 1938.
Here is a list of their
children:
- Elliot Frost (1896-1900)
- Lesley Frost (1899–1983)
- Carol Frost (1902–1940)
- Irma Frost (1903–1967)
- Marjorie Frost (1905–1934)
- Elinor Bettina Frost (1907-1907)
8. Robert Frost was the only poet to receive four Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry. He also won a Congressional Gold Medal for his poetry.
9. He got to read one of his poems at John F. Kennedy’s Inauguration on January 20, 1961.
Here is the poem he recited:
The Gift Outright
The land was ours before
we were the land’s.
She was our land more
than a hundred years
Before we were her
people. She was ours
In Massachusetts, in
Virginia,
But we were England’s,
still colonials,
Possessing what we still
were unpossessed by,
Possessed by what we now
no more possessed.
Something we were
withholding made us weak
Until we found out that
it was ourselves
We were withholding from
our land of living,
And forthwith found
salvation in surrender.
Such as we were we gave
ourselves outright
(The deed of gift was
many deeds of war)
To the land vaguely
realizing westward,
But still unstoried,
artless, unenhanced,
Such as she was, such as
she would become.
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Books
by Robert Frost and others:
1. Poetry for Kids:
Robert Frost by Robert Frost and Jay Parini
2. The Illustrated
Robert Frost: 15 Winter Poems for Children by Robert Frost and Sloth Dreams
Publishing
3. Papa Is a Poet: A
Story About Robert Frost by Natalie Bober and Rebecca Gibbon
Parents/caretakers
be sure books are child friendly before reading them to your child/children.
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“Poetry is when an
emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”—Robert Frost
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