Robert Frost Robert Frost, an American poet of the late 19th century, used nature in many of his writings. He was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874, but later moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts (after his father died) where he did most of his writing. Throughout his life he had always been interested in literature. He attended Dartmouth College, but remained less than one semester. His first instant success poem that he published was “A Boy’…showed first 75 words of 406 total…

…showed last 75 words of 406 total…not liked by some critics; I don’t think they are who he was writing for. He wanted to appeal to the common man and I believe he did. His awards include three-dozen honorary degrees, four Publisher Prizes, Bollinger Prize for Poetry, and he spoke at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. He once stated that his major goal in life was to write “a few poems that would be hard to rid of.”