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Jun 26, 2020 · Carol had a 15-year old son, Prescott, who was upstairs when Carol shot himself. A few days earlier, Frost had visited Carol at his farm and tried to convince him to take more validation in his...
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Mar 16, 2017 · 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.
When he was rejected by his wife and high school sweetheart, Elinor White, at 20, Robert Frost planned suicide in a swamp. In 1920, he committed his younger sister to a mental hospital.
May 3, 2017 · 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...
Nov 9, 2023 · “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.
May 19, 1996 · But the impact of tragedies on the scale of the suicide of his son Carol and the mental instability of his sister and one of his daughters cannot be understood if nothing is shown of...
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.
