Frost’s Life In Derry, New Hampshire Inspired Some Of His Works

His debut poem, "My Butterfly. An Elegy," which appeared in the November 8, 1894, issue of the New York Independent, was sold for $15 ($470 in today's money) in 1894. Elinor Miriam White declined his marriage proposal when he proudly announced his success because she wanted to finish college (at St. Lawrence University) first. When Frost returned from his expedition to Virginia's Great Dismal Swamp, he asked Elinor once more. She consented after receiving her degree, and on December 19, 1895, they were wed in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

From 1897 to 1899, Frost studied at Harvard University, but he left on his own will because of sickness. Frost on the farm for nine years while writing early in the mornings and penning many of the poems that would eventually become famous. Shortly before his passing, Frost's grandpa bought a property in Derry, New Hampshire, for Robert and Elinor. In the end, his farming endeavors were a failure, and he turned back to teaching as an English instructor at Plymouth, New Hampshire's New Hampshire Normal School (now Plymouth State University) from 1906 to 1911 and the Pinkerton Academy in New Hampshire.