Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874. His parents were Isabel Moodie and William Prescott Frost, Jr (Bio). His father was a drinker and a gambler, which shocked the whole family. On June 25, 1876, Robert's sister Jeannie (Bio) was born. In 1879, however, Frost entered kindergarten, returned home due to a nervous stomach ailment, and did not return later. The next year he tried to go to first grade, but dropped out again. The same thing happened the following year. He was home-schooled. In 1885 his father died (Bio). He died of tuberculosis on May 5, leaving his family only $8 after all his expenses were paid. After his death, the family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts to live with his grandparents. As his younger sister entered fourth grade, he took the test and entered third grade. The following year, the family moved to Salem Depot, New Hampshire, where her mother began teaching fifth through eighth grades (Bio). In 1888 he passed the entrance exam to enter Lawrence High School. The following year he finished first in his class. After that year, he began to really get into poetry. His first published poem was "La Noche Triste," in the Lawrence High School Bulletin. The following month "Il canto dell'onda" (Bio) was published. In 1891, Frost passed the entrance exams to enter Harvard. When he was there, he met and fell in love with Elinor Miriam White. The following year he became engaged to her. Because he had to depend on his grandparents for money, he entered Dartmouth College because it was cheaper. He dropped out of college that December because he was bored and wanted something to do. In 1893 he taught glass making to a rowdy eighth-grade student for a couple of weeks (Bio). He then tried to convince Elinor to marry him before he went to St. Lawrence University in New York, but she said no. For the remainder of the 1890s, Frost worked as a teacher, farmer, and publisher. In 1912, Frost moved to England for a while. Everyone liked his poetry and it was there that he began to become famous. There he met other famous poets, such as William Butler Yeats and Ezra Pound (Bio). When Frost returned to the United States from England, he began receiving numerous awards. One of his proudest accomplishments was when he was able to perform his work at John F.