Showing posts with label FROST Robert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FROST Robert. Show all posts
Friday, October 13, 2017

Two New England Farmers--A Brief Conversation

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One comments. . . As I  "mushed" on into a little clearing, walking towards the sun, I had a glimpse of a winter effect I alway...
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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Robert Frost's Invitation

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The Pasture I'm going out to clean the pasture spring; I'll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water clea...
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Friday, June 2, 2017

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain CV

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Second Edition:  Quatrain CV Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield One glimpse --if dimly, yet indeed reveal'd,      Toward ...
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Monday, March 20, 2017

Robert Frost: Spring Pools

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Spring Pools These pools that, though in forests, still reflect The total sky almost without defect, And like the flowers beside them, c...
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Friday, August 5, 2016

Thomas Hardy: "The Subalterns" and "Hap"

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Who's in charge here? The Subalterns                                  I "Poor wanderer," said the leaden sky,       ...
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Sunday, July 3, 2016

Robert Frost and Sarangapani: Cynical, realistic, or pragmatic?

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As readers of poetry know, there are various types: romance, epic, nature, philosophical . . . There is also another that might be seen, dep...
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Saturday, April 9, 2016

Robert Frost's commemorative poem: Edward Thomas March 3, 1878--April 9, 1917

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Sadly, Edward Thomas is another of those artists, from many countries, whose artistic life was cut short during the Great War.  He enlisted ...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Robert Frost: "Dust of Snow"

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This is a short poem by Robert Frost, but it speaks of something important--the way small or seemingly inconsequential events can affect us ...
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Saturday, July 25, 2015

Robert Frost: Putting in the Seed

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Putting in the Seed You come to fetch me from my work tonight When supper's on the table, and we'll see If I can leave off bur...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

It's April

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I know--April is two-thirds gone already, but as the old cliche goes--better late than never.  Following are several poems about April, and ...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Robert Frost: Trial by Existence

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Robert Frost:  "Trial by Existence" Normally I don't post poems this long, but this one I just have to.  It is, to me anyw...
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Monday, September 22, 2014

Robert Frost: "Misgiving"

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An Autumn Poem---- Misgiving All crying, 'We will go with you, O Wind !' The foliage follow him , leaf and stem; But a sleep...
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Saturday, May 17, 2014

Robert Frost: "Into My Own"

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Into My Own One of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze, Were not, as 'twere, the meres...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Robert Frost: Stopping by Desert Places

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No, I haven't gotten the title wrong.  I just conflated the titles of two of Robert Frost's poems:  "Stopping by Woods on a Sn...
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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Robert Frost: Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length

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One point to make about this title is that it certainly grabs my attention.  Usually I glance over the title, perhaps consider it for a very...
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

The Rubaiyat: Quatrain LVIII

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Quatrain LVIII is related to the previous one by its opening  and by its focus on sin, something that hasn't come up in earlier quatrain...
Sunday, April 29, 2012

Robert Frost: "The Vantage Point"

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This is one of Robert Frost's earlier poems.  It appeared in his first collection of poetry,  A Boy's Will , which was published in ...
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Friday, September 23, 2011

Fall Equinox

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Like last year, the first day of autumn, or the Fall Equinox, doesn't seem much like fall here in Tucson, where the temperature is expec...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Summer Solstice

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It's that time again--the Summer Solstice, the First Day of Summer, and the Longest Day of the Year. I thought the following quotation ...
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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Robert Frost: March 26, 1874 --Jan 29, 1963

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While browsing through Frost's Collected Poems , this poem jumped out at me. It was an interesting poem in its own right, it reminded m...
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