Life and Robert Frost

Robert Frost(a name never to be mentioned without reverence)
suffered heavily
throughout his life at the
hands of grief and loss. At
the age of 11 (1884)his
father died to tuberculosis
leaving the family in
financial distress. Sixteen
years later his mother, too,
died of cancer.
But family deaths and
intense depressive bouts
would mark Robert's life
as long as he lived.
Following the death of his
mother, he had to commit
his sister to a mental
institution, where she
lived for nine years before
also perishing.
Robert Frosts' children,
too, were not spared from
what seemed to be
inherited bouts of
misfortune and
depression. Of his six
children (Wikipedia):
*His son Eliott died died at
the age of 8 due to
Cholera.
*His son Carol committed
suicide at the age of 38.
*Two of his daughters
(Emma and Marjorie) died
after childbirth.
*His daughter Elinor died
three days after birth.
The only surviving
daughter was Lesley who
outlived her father by 20
years.
His wife Elinor died of
heartattack one year after
being diagnosed with
breast cancer in 1938.
Such was his life rather a life of sufferings
(I HAVE FALLEN UPON THE THORNS OF LIFE
I BLEED....Shelley).
so is it an exaggeration as he has penned down?:
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
(Frost's biography inputs: source, Hubpages and Wikipedia.)