Robert Lee Frost was much admired for his description of rural life in New England, his command of American informal speech, and his realistic poetry portraying ordinary people in everyday situations. He was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California and died on January 29, 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts. Frost's father, William Prescott Frost, Jr., was a journalist with ambitions of establishing a career in California, and in 1873 he and his wife moved to San Francisco. Her …showed first 75 words of 1844 total…

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