Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. His parents were Isabelle Moodie Frost, a teacher, and William Prescott Frost Jr., a career journalist in California. His father's dream and career ended in 1885 when his life was taken by tuberculosis. This incident changed the lives of Roberts and his sisters because it forced his mother to move him and his sister Jeanie to Lawrence, Massachusetts, where they would be cared for by their grandparents. Neither Robert nor Jeanie were able to be raised by their mother as she taught at various schools in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He was one of the top students at Lawrence High School and graduated as valedictorian with Elinor White whom he married in 1895. Robert was always interested in and amazed by poetry, so he continued his studies after high school at Dartmouth College while Elinor continued her education at St. Lawrence University. During the first twelve years of his marriage he had six children with his wife, but two died young and left him with a son and three daughters. Robert's first poem to be published was "My Butterfly". An Elegy,” and it was published in 1894 by a weekly literary journal called The Independent. Shortly after his poem was published, he dropped out of Dartmouth College and had not even attended college for a full year. He resumed his studies in 1897 at Harvard University, but dropped out again after 2 years of attending the college. In 1911, Frost was already 40 years old and had not yet published a single book of poetry, but that year the Derry farm was replaced by Frost. He sold the farm and used the...... middle of paper...... ences will make good neighbors which he had not left his father's speech. Throughout the poem "Mend the Wall" by Robert Frost, the speaker disliked the wall, but even though he didn't like it, he still remained on good terms with his neighbor. The neighbor always said that good fences made good neighbors, but what made them good neighbors was the speaker's respect for his opinion on the wall. The poem also showed how the neighbor and the speaker lived different lifestyles, but even though they did, they were still able to coexist with each other. Robert Frost will never be forgotten and his poem will always be taught in our primary and secondary schools and universities. His work will never be forgotten because it concerns our daily lives and “Today, it is Frost's narrative poetry that exerts the strongest influence on contemporary writers ( Gioia 193).”