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Robert Frost(1874--1963);;Life and Writing Career;A good student in high school A particular love for the Latin classics Frost entered college twice, once in Harvard University. Dropped out of college In 1895 , married his high school sweetheart Elinor Frost supplemented the inadequate proceeds收益 of his farming by several periods of school teaching and other odd jobs, but he was throughout determined to make a career of poetry. He taught and farmed for 12 years. Although he had had only five poems published by the time the ten year period had elapsed, his faith in himself remained unshaken and he determined on a bold or reckless venture---selling his farm and moving to England where he thought the climate for poetry might be better. Fortunately he very soon succeeded in meeting Ezra Pound. ;The Frost farm, where the family lived from 1900-1911;In 1912 Frost sold his farm and took his wife and four young children to England, where he published his first book of poems: A Boy’s Will at the age of 39. It was followed by the second collection of poems: North of Boston (1914), which gained international reputation. The collection contains some of Frosts best-known poems: Mending Wall, The Death of the Hired Man, Home Burial, A Servant to Servants, After Apple-Picking, and The Wood-Pile. The poems, written with blank verse or looser free verse of dialogue, were drawn from his own life, recurrent losses, everyday tasks, and his loneliness. ;;His wife died in 1938 and he lost four of his children. Two of his daughters suffered mental breakdowns, and his son Carol, a frustrated poet and farmer, committed suicide. Frost also suffered from depression and the continual self-doubt led him to cling to the desire to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. After the death of his wife, Frost became strongly attracted to Kay Morrison, whom he employed as his secretary and adviser. Frost also composed for her one of his finest love poems, A Witness Tree. ;At six months’ old