Index4INDEX Card 313: Robert Frost 3
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost
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About the Quote
No one can dispute thr truth of this statemenr: Life goes on. Not everything which happens in this world revoves around us. Most of the world doesn't care about what we do or what happens to us.
We can have a storybook academic and athletic and professional career which results in receiving every conceivable honor known to humanity; the world at large doesn't care. We could have a life filled with peaks and valleys, successes and scandals; more people than not just don't care.
As bad as things can get for us, life continues and time passes. The intense spotlight of attention focused on us due to some scandal (e.g., social media buzz, sex tape, negative viral video) fades away with the passage of time. Eventually, we start over or reinvent ourselves, and it's not a concern anymore. For people described as attention whores, this can be a very difficult thing when life goes on. For everyone else, the fact that life goes on is exactly the good news people need to pick up the pieces and continue with their lives.
Some (More) Information about Robert Frost
By the time Robert Frost and Elinor White had married in 1895, he had dropped out of Dartmouth University after attending the school for less than one year. He would resume his academic studies at Harvard University in 1897, but he would leave after two years.
He was supporting his wife and growing family by both farming and teaching school. Over the next 12 years, the Frosts had 6 children; of these six children, two had died early. This left the Forsts with one son and three daughters. From 1900 to 1909 the Frosts lived in Derry, New Hampshire, US. There they raised poultry on a farm. Whilein Derry, Robert Frost was an instructor at Pinkerton Academy.
The years in Derry were an important period for Robert Frost. It was during this time when he discovered hsi interest in botany. Moreimportantly, it was during this period when he acquired the "New England rural sage" persona. Frost had been writing poetry all this time, but publishing houses showed little if any interest in his poetry.
Poetry had been considered a young person's field, and at 40 Frost was no spring chicken. By this time, he had just a few poems published in magazines and no books of poetry. The owner of the farm in Derry passed ownership of the farm to Frost. This was a key moment in his life. Hesold the farm and used earnings from the sale for a trans-Atlantic voyage to London, England, UK. With volumes of unpublished poetry with him, Robert Frost (with help from American ex-pat and poet Ezra Pound) was able to find a more receptive environment for his writings in London.
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