1. Robert Frost
... , or his childhood. Many of his poems are a reflection of himself and his childhood. A good example is the poem, "Birches. Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco. He died on January 29, 1963, in Boston. He was named after Robert E. Lee, the commander of the Confederate armies. His father, William Prescott Frost Jr., was a New Englander and ... a graduate of Harvard. Robert's mother, Isabelle Moodie, was a Scottish-born schoolteacher. After his parents met and had gotten married, they moved to San Francisco where William became a newspaper reporter. In 1885 William ...
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