"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."
biography
Robert Frost is perhaps the most famous American poet of all time. The combination of wisdom and idyllism allowed his poets to be widely read and revered to this day; his frequent reliance on metaphysical poetry separated his work from that of others during the twentieth century. Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874 but moved to Massachusetts when he was eleven following his father's death. He remained in the Northeast for much of his early life, writing some poetry unsuccessfully working a variety jobs and attending Ivy League schools for brief stints. Shortly after he was married to Elinor White, whom he graduated high school with, and began a family with her, he moved to England to try his luck with publishers there. After his works fared better in England, he returned to the United States at the outbreak of World War I in 1915, moving to New Hampshire. Later in his life, he continued to write poetry and work as a college professor at several universities, including the University of Michigan; his unconventional teaching practices and emphasis on quality and belief in one's work were quite notable. Frost also became quite lauded domestically, to the point that he was chosen to compose and read the Inaugural Poem for John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961, when he was eighty-six years old. Frost died in 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts. Frost's legacy is most notably one that did not fit into the conventional categories of literature of the twentieth century; rather, he tended to ignore them, while still obeying the rules of meter and such, which made his works even more everlasting.
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