Robert Frost

Robert Frost was born in San Francisco.  His father died when he was 11, and then his family was very poor.  Him and his family went to live with his grandpa and he worked in a mill as a bobbin boy.  His grandpa paid for him to go to high school.  When he finished his grandpa wanted to send him to college, but he didn't want to go.  He wanted to write poetry.  He loved a girl that was in school with him, and he got married with her.  They had a little boy, so he was going to be a college teacher, but he had to go to college to be a college teacher.  So he went to college, but he and his son got sick, and his son died.  He quit college.  His wife begged his grandpa to give them a farm, so he gave them a farm if he would work on it for ten years.  It was a dairy farm.  He wrote poetry and worked on the farm.  When he had worked on the farm for ten years, he sold it and moved to England because nobody in America would publish his poetry.  The people in England published his poetry.   He went back to American and they decided to publish his poetry.  When he got home, people wanted him to work at the college and do classes, so he got to work at the college.  He taught English classes.  Everybody liked his poetry.  It was about farms and pastures and animals.  He got awarded four Pulitzer prizes for his poetry.

The Pasture

BY ROBERT FROST

I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;

I'll only stop to rake the leaves away

(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):

I sha'n't be gone long.—You come too.

I'm going out to fetch the little calf

That's standing by the mother. It's so young,

It totters when she licks it with her tongue.

I sha'n't be gone long.—You come too.

Brady's poem based on The Pasture

I'm going out to play with friends;

I'll play football

And play games.

I sha'n't be gone long.--You come too.