What is Robert Frost?
{{Infobox Writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox Writer/doc]] --> | name = Robert Lee Frost | image = Robert Frost NYWTS.jpg | caption = Robert Frost (1941) | birth_name = Robert Lee Frost | birth_date = {{birth_date|1874|3|26}} | birth_place = [[San Francisco, California]], <br>[[United States]] | death_date = {{dda|1963|1|29|1874|3|26|}} | death_place = [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], <br>[[United States]] | occupation = [[Poet]], [[Playwright]], | movement = | genre = | notableworks= Road Not Taken | signature = Robert Frost Signature.svg }} '''Robert Lee Frost''' (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an [[Americans|American]] [[poet]]. He is well known for his [[Realism|realistic]] writing of [[rural]] life and his use of American informal (slang) speech.<ref name=britannica>{{cite encyclopedia | encyclopedia= Encyclopædia Britannica | title=Robert Frost | url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9035504/Robert-Frost | edition=Online | year=2008 | publisher= | accessdate=2008-12-21}}</ref> His poems were often set in rural life in [[New England]] in the early [[20th century|twentieth century]], and used these settings to look at complex social and [[philosophy|philosophical]] themes. Frost has often been quoted by other people. He was honored often during his lifetime, receiving four [[Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry]]. ==Early years== [[Image:Robert Frost, 1910s.jpg|left|thumb|Robert Frost, circa 1910]] Robert Frost was born in [[San Francisco, California]], to [[journalist]] William Prescott Frost, Jr., and Isabelle Moodie.<ref name=britannica/> Frost's father was a [[teacher]], and later an editor of the ''San Francisco Evening Bulletin'' (later the ''San Francisco Examiner''), and an unsuccessful candidate for city tax collector. After his death on May 5, 1885 the family moved across the country to Lawrence, [[Massachusetts]]. Frost graduated from Lawrence High School in 1892.<ref>{{cite book |last= Ehrlich |first= Eugene |author2