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Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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Moving
Skating
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Mind
Circles
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