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How did the death of Robert Frost’s father affect his family?

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Robert Frost, 1954 — Robert Frost “Good fences make good neighbors.” Robert Frost crafted some of the most indelible lines in American poetry in such poems as “Mending Wall” (1914).

Following the untimely death of Robert Frost’s father, William Prescott Frost, Jr., from tuberculosis in 1885, his mother, Isabelle Moodie Frost, relocated with her two children, Robert and Jeanie, from San Francisco to Lawrence, Massachusetts.1

Upon their arrival, the children were taken in by their paternal grandparents, while their mother supported the family by teaching at various schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.1