Robert Frost Research Paper

Anthony Cipolla

Ms. Solomon

English 12 E

3 March 2016

The Significance of Frost’s Family in His Writing

Throughout the life of Robert Frost, the effects of the personal losses he has endured, be it physically or mentally, did change the way he wrote his poetry. The deaths of everyone in his family played a very important role in his style of writing. Almost every single person in Frost’s family died of natural causes. His Father died from tuberculosis when Robert was only eleven years old. His mother died from cancer at age twenty-six. Twenty years after his mother’s death, his sister was put in a mental hospital and died nine years later. All of Frost’s family died around the same time period. His father died in 1885, His mother died in

died in 1885 to tuberculosis when he was only thirty - five years old. This was a very sad death in the family, not only because he was Robert’s father, and the fact that Robert was only eleven years old, but his death led to big financial problems in the Frost family. The family was left with only eight dollars. Robert’s Sister, Jeanie Frost, had to be committed to a mental hospital, where she ended up dying nine years after she was put there. Robert’s wife, Elinor Miriam White died in 1938 when she was sixty - five years old. Elinor had heart problems throughout her life, and she developed breast cancer in 1937, and then died of heart failure the year after. In his life, Robert and Elinor Frost had five

Their daughters’ names were Lesley Frost Ballantine, Irma Frost, Marjorie Frost, and Elinor Bettina Frost. Their sons’ names were Carol Frost, and Elliot Frost. Lesley Ballantine Frost was one of the only two of their children to outlive their father, the other child being Irma. Lesley died of old age in 1983 at age eighty - four. Irma Frost was the other child to outlive Robert. Irma died in 1967 at age sixty - four. Elinor Bettina Frost Was born in 1907. However, she ended up dying just three days after her birth. Majorie Frost was born in 1905, and died in 1934 at age twenty - nine due to puerperal fever that she was conditioned with after childbirth. His son, Carol Frost, was born in 1902 and died in 1940 at age thirty - eight due to committing suicide. His last child, Elliot Frost, was born in 1896 and died in 1904 at age eight due to having cholera, and he ended up dying from it. Robert didn’t become interested in writing poetry until his high school years. He went to school in Lawrence, and he attended Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, and Harvard