Robert Frost (1874-1963)
 four-time Pulitzer Prize winning
American poet, teacher and lecturer
 wrote many popular and oft-quoted
poems including “After Apple-
Picking”, “The Road Not Taken”,
“Home Burial” and “Mending Wall”
FACTS
 b. 26 March 1874 in San Francisco,
California to Isabelle Moodie (1844-
1900) teacher, and William Prescott
Frost Jr. (1850-1885), teacher and
journalist
 he was named after General Robert
G. Lee
 On 19 December 1895, he married
Elinor Miriam White, his co-
valedictorian and sweetheart in
school
 Had six children, sons Elliott and
Carol and daughters Lesley, Irma,
Marjorie and Elinor Bettina.
The Road Not Taken
  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,
 d. 29 January 1963 in Boston,
Massachusetts
EDUCATION
 He entered high school in Lawrence
High School and in 1892; he entered
Dartmouth, the Ivy League College in
Hanover, New Hampshire. In 1897,
he entered Harvard University in
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
POETRY
 In Lawrence High School , he wrote
his first poem “La Noche Triste”
(1890) which was published in the
school paper
 Got his first break as a poet in 1894
when the New York magazine
Independent published “My
Butterfly: An Elegy” for $15
 Also wrote “Stopping by woods on a
snowy evening” and “Hyla Brook”
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked 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 I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.