Question

Who wrote the poem Home Burial?

• A. Emily Dickinson
• B. Edgar Allan Poe
• C. Robert Frost
• D. Walt Whitman

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Robert Frost

Robert Frost

• He was born in March 1874 in San Francisco, California.

• Only poet to receive four pulitzer prizes for poetry.

• On his 75th birthday, the US Senate passed a resolution in his honor which said, "His poems have helped to guide American thought and humor and wisdom, setting forth to our minds a reliable representation of ourselves and of all men."

• The poem Home Burial was written nearly eight years after the death of his First son Elinor White.