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Semi-protected edit request on 23 September 2020

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Robert Frost appears in the Simpsons, season 4 , episode 15 , “ I love Lisa”. It is a flashback to a 1950s black and white clip of the krusty the clown show, where krusty dumps snow over mr frost and frost is quoted “ we discussed this and I said no” 157.131.200.145 (talk) 08:58, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

What do you want me to change? Please state in the form of change x to y please. Thanks! HeartGlow ^(talk) 12:09, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No author has ever had a work published in England specifically. To record this as a fact shows a rare ignorance. The author's works were initially published in the UK.

Abundant inaccuracies in this article. Ridiculous. He deserves better. Paulcoll1971 (talk) 23:20, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Add Robert Frost Middle School in Rockville, MD, Montgommery County https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/robertfrostms/ 2601:14F:4400:875E:C8A1:BB59:D701:3D4F (talk) 13:57, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not done – The school's notability isn't established. The present article mentions that one college hall is named after Frost. If we start mentioning every elementary, middle, or high school that has that distinction, I'm afraid of its growing into a list that would overwhelm the article. Dhtwiki (talk) 20:04, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested edit to "Legacy and cultural influence" section

Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is used as a plot device in the spy movie "Telefon" (1977). In the movie, "dormant" agents were "awakened" by reciting the last lines of the poem to them. In Tarantino's movie "Death Proof", the same code phrase is used, possibly as a reference/homage to Telefon. It might be worth mentioning it under "Legacy and cultural influence" (I have just re-signed up to Wikipedia and I don't seem to have the clearance to edit the article myself). Cheers! Slowtraveller lazywriter (talk) Marco - 16 Feb 2021

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Frost also taught regular at Dartmouth, beginning with a Fellowship in 1942-47, until his death. Source: Google “Frost at Dartmouth,” Rah er Reading Room, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, etc George J McIlrath gjmcilrath@aol.com 2601:589:8001:8170:8858:1157:C1FE:4E5E (talk) 16:02, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. —Belwine (talk) 16:11, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Lee

Came here to find out why a New England poet was named Robert Lee Frost, but there is no mention of the middle name in the article other than the fact of it. This article might be a good starting point: http://www.michaeljroueche.com/2013/03/a-yankee-poet-a-southern-general-a-civil-war-novel/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.11.36.194 (talk) 21:28, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

That he was named after RE Lee isn't often mentioned in biographies, nor does the blog post say much about why Frost was named after Lee or what effect, if any, it had on his personality.

A Yankee poet named for a Confederate icon? How can that be? Simple: We don’t get to name ourselves. Robert Lee Frost was born not in New England, but in San Francisco March 26, 1874 to a father and mother who had migrated from New England. Frost’s father, supposedly fed up with the Republican policies of New England, moved his family west. There, he edited a Democratic-Party-supporting newspaper and was a proud “Copperhead, a southern sympathizer and champion of States rights.”

What does a source such as the Thompson biography have to say about Frost's middle name? Dhtwiki (talk) 18:24, 27 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.robertfrost.org/robert-frost-facts.jsp "3. He was named after Confederate General Robert E. Lee." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.11.36.194 (talk) 06:36, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

https://neoenglish.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/robert-frost-life-and-career/ "She was a poetess and so wanted to name her son Robert after Robert Burns, the greatest poet of Scotland, but the father wanted to name him after General Lee. So, as a compromise, the boy was named Robert Lee. Hence his full name is Robert Lee Frost."

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0296560/bio His father was a journalist who dabbled in politics, was rebellious and named his son after the Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. William Frost was also an alcoholic and tubercular. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.11.36.194 (talk) 06:41, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This sort of thing might indeed have an effect on one's personality: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/25/reviews/990425.25benfyt.html "As an independent-minded young man, Will had run away from home in Massachusetts to join the Confederate Army. (He got as far as Philadelphia before the police remanded him to his furious parents.) Later, he ran away to California, where he named his son after his hero, Robert E. Lee. When Will Frost died at 34, of tuberculosis and drink, Belle returned the family to the East and the strained mercy of her husband's parents. "