Robert Frost

The article that I found on Robert Frost is based on his burial in Bennington, VT. I remember studying Robert Frost in fifth grade and talking about his life VT and the poems he had written while he was there. This article on Bennington also talks about Frost's experiences in New England.

It is told that Frost actually lived in a town called Shaftsbury until 1938 when his wife Elinor died. He then traveled back to his early home, a farm in NH, to scatter her ashes. When he found the old barn run down and the owner unfriendly, he decided to keep his wife's ashes in an urn in the closet until he could later find a burial spot.

In the summer of 1940, Frost had bought two burial plots in the Old Bennington Cemetery behind the Old First Congregational Church. The article gives a brief history of the difference between the Old and New Bennington Cemetery and how the Old part dates back to the Revolutionary War. The article also argues somewhat about Frost's beliefs and how some thought that he was and Atheist.

The stone used for Robert Frost's grave was made from granite that came from my home town and the granite capitol of the world, Barre. It has laurel leaves hand carved into the sides and a quote that reads " I had a lover's quarrel with the world."