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Frost and his wife had six children. Their first son, Elliot died of cholera at four years old. Another son, Carol, died in 1940 after he died by suicide.
Frost's son Carol commits suicide. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Frost's first public reading, Frost is invited to read his poetry at Tufts College as the Phi Beta Kappa poet. 1941. Frost purchases a house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1942. A Witness Tree is published. 1943. Frost is awarded his fourth Pulitzer for A Witness Tree. He joins ...
He points to the fact that Frost’s son, Carol, committed suicide, that depression and schizophrenia ran through the family, and that some of Frost’s poems express a death-wish. “A lot of biographers didn’t want to go into that subject,” Hart said, shrugging.
“I feel as though I was getting better able to make my slumps and blues shorter than they used to be,” Carol wrote, proud of mastering his “mistakes.” Eight years later, after Carol’s suicide, writing again to Untermeyer, Frost put it this way: I took the wrong way with him. I tried many ways and every single one of them was wrong.
Four of Frost’s six children died before he did, including Carol, the son who committed suicide. Frost’s daughter Irma suffered mental problems that required hospitalization, and Elinor battled anxiety, too. She died of heart failure in 1938. Frost’s own bouts of depression brought physical and mental anguish.
Frost’s son, Carol, suffered from depression most of his life and committed suicide, when he was 38. The letters Hart found in various libraries and from new sources combined, with a close...
“Frost had one of the most tragic lives of any American poet, and all of this is running through his poetry,” says Irwin. Frost’s father died when Frost was a boy. Two of his children died in childhood. His sister and a daughter were committed to mental institutions. His son Carol committed suicide.
