Robert Frost
Frost graduated from Lawrence High School in 1892. Frost's mother joined the Swedenborgian church and had him baptized in it, but he left it as an adult. Despite his later association with rural life, Frost grew up in the city, and published his first couple of works in his high school's magazine. He attended Dartmouth College long enough to be accepted into the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. Frost returned home to teach and to work at various jobs including delivering newspapers and factory labor. He did not enjoy these jobs not one bit, he felt his true calling as a poet.
So with that said in 1894 Frost sold his first poem “My Butterfly,” to The New York Independent for 15 dollars. On the strength of this accomplishment, he asked Elinor Miriam White, his high school co-valedictorian, to marry him but she refused. She rufused because she wanted to finish school before they married. He came back later that year and asked Elinor again; this time she accepted. They married in December 1895 and tried to make a career of teaching. He helped his mother manage a small private school in Lawrence, Massachusetts, where his first son was born. He spent two years at Harvard, but undergraduate study beacause it...
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