In the year 1920, Frost bought a farm near Middlebury College in Shaftsbury, Vermont, where he was one of the founders of the Bread Loaf School and Conference of English (Horn 26). It is during this period that his personal life began to take toll of his family. Apparently, mental illness run through his genealogy, as his younger sister had suffered bouts of mental illness and later died. Frost was no exception, he suffered from depression, and his self-denial led him to hold on the hope that he would be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Two of his daughters also suffered mental breakdowns and so did his wife Elinor. Frost’s son, Carol, who wanted to emulate his father as a poet, could not handle the frustrations and committed suicide. Apart from these, Frost lost three other children in his lifetime. What is more, his wife, who had suffered from heart problems throughout her life, was diagnosed with breast cancer and later succumbed to heart failure in 1937. After the death of Elinor, Frost fell in love with his secretary cum advisor, Kay Morrison, whom he had employed. To Kay he dedicated one of his best love pieces, “A Witness Tree”. The tribulations in Frost’s life showed that although his pieces inspired many, he was immune to their teachings: a classical example of a doctor not being able to treat himself.