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The Robert Frost Farm in Derry, New Hampshire, is a connected farm that was the home of poet Robert Frost from 1900 to 1911. Today it is a New Hampshire state park in use as a historic house museum. The property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as the Robert Frost Homestead.〔 ==History== Frost lived in the house from the fall of 1900 until it was sold in November 1911.〔Parini, Jay. ''Robert Frost: A Life''. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1999: 73. ISBN 0-8050-6341-2.〕 The majority of the poems collected in his first two books, ''A Boy's Will'' and ''North of Boston'', were written here.〔 Many of the poems in his 1916 collection ''Mountain Interval'' were also written at the Derry farm.〔Pritchard, William H. ''Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered''. Oxford University Press, 1993 (reprint): 134. ISBN 0-87023-838-8.〕 Frost once said, "There was something about the experience at Derry which stayed in my mind, and was tapped for poetry in the years that came after."〔Shmidt, Shannon McKenna and Joni Rendon. ''Novel Destinations: Literary Landmarks from Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West''. National Geographic Society, 2008: 48. ISBN 978-1-4262-0454-8.〕 Elliott, first son of Frost and his wife Elinor, died on the farm in 1900 at age four, likely due to influenza.〔Francis, Lesley Lee. ''Robert Frost: An Adventure in Poetry, 1900–1918''. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2004: 15. ISBN 0-7658-0825-0.〕 The other children were educated at home by their parents. Lesley Frost later recalled she was "taught the alphabet on a typewriter... My mother taught the organized subjects, reading (the phonetic method), writing (then known as penmanship), geography, spelling. My father took on botany and astronomy."〔Francis, Lesley Lee. ''Robert Frost: An Adventure in Poetry, 1900–1918''. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2004: 27. ISBN 0-7658-0825-0.〕 A hired man named Carl Burrell (and, occasionally, Burrell's father) assisted with farming duties like building hen coops, tending livestock, and picking apples and pears.〔Parini, Jay. ''Robert Frost: A Life''. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1999: 74. ISBN 0-8050-6341-2.〕 Locals thought Frost was lazy as a farmer.〔 He later recalled that they were correct: "I always liked to sit up all hours of the night planning some inarticulate crime, going out to work when the spirit moved me, something they shook their heads ominously at, with proper prejudice. They would talk among themselves about my lack of energy. I was a failure in their eyes from the start."〔 The family moved out in the fall of 1909 to rented lodgings in Derry Village while Frost taught at the Pinkerton Academy. They later moved to Plymouth, New Hampshire so that Frost could teach at the Plymouth Normal School.〔Francis, Lesley Lee. ''Robert Frost: An Adventure in Poetry, 1900–1918''. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2004: 34. ISBN 0-7658-0825-0.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Frost Farm (Derry, New Hampshire)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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