... drifted through a string of occupations after leaving school, working as a teacher, cobbler, and editor of the Lawrence Sentinel. His first professional poem, "My Butterfly,"" was published on November 8, 1894, in the New York newspaper The Independent. In 1895, Frost married Elinor Miriam White who was a major inspiration of ... I said within my heart, "Whether they work together or apart."" But as I said it, swift there passed me by On noiseless wing a bewildered butterfly, Seeking with memories grown dim o'er night Some resting flower of yesterday's delight. And once I marked his fl...

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• Grade Level: High School

... feels alone and often yearns for the companionship of others. In the second transition "swift there passed me by/On noiseless wing a bewildered butterfly". The butterfly represents that Frost has enjoyed great beauty and love in his life. The butterfly Frost uses to support his feelings of loneliness and grief in the poem. "As where some flower lay withering on the ground". As ... of questions that have no reply/And would have turned to toss the grass to dry". Because the cut grass comes between the butterfly, Frost says that beauty is offset or balanced in life, with loneliness and gri...

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... . His use of the pronoun "I" suggests a personal connotation and it is evident that Frost, himself, feels abandoned and bewildered. However, Frost suddenly feels different, upon the arrival of a butterfly and he creates a beautiful image when he says "but he turned first and led my eye to look at a tall tuft of flowers beside a brook". Frost wonderfully describes ... how the arrival of a butterfly set him thinking about "questions that have no answer", and I feel that this image embodies the sentiment of this poem. Nature has the ability to connect us to ... ...

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... years he stayed at home in Lawrence, and wrote more poetry to accompany the poems he had published in the school newspaper. In 1894, he sold his first poem, "My Butterfly: An Elegy", to The Independent, a weekly New York literary journal. In the fall of 1897, Robert entered Harvard as a special student, but two years later left with no degree. For ... ...

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... side (Robert). Frost also attended Harvard University later in his life but again left early without receiving a degree (Literature, 1) In 1894, the New York Independent published Frost's first poem "My Butterfly" and he also had five poems privately printed. In 1895 he married a former schoolmate, Elinor White, whom he later had six children with. (Literature, 1) In 1912, at the age of ... ...

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... that state, entered Dartmouth College, but remained less than one semester. Returning to Massachusetts, he taught school and worked in a mill and as a newspaper reporter. In 1894 he sold "My Butterfly: An Elegy" to The Independent, a New York literary journal. A year later he married Elinor White, with whom he had shared valedictorian honors at Lawrence High School. From 1897 to 1899 ... ...

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... while attending high school in Lawrence, where he graduated in 1892. Next he attended Dartmouth College briefly. After going one semester, he dropped out. In 1894 his first poem "My Butterfly" was published in the Independent. Shortly afterwards, in 1895, he married Elinor Miriam White. The couple had six children. Frost decided to try college again in 1897 when he enrolled ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School