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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.
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.
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.
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...
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. He ...
His son Carol has not yet, by 1938, committed suicide, but two of his daughters have entered upon, and dissolved, ill‐fated marriages, and the third, after intermittent mental ill ness, has...
