Re:America's Great Poet of Darkness: A Reconsideration of Ro...
by sevensor on Thursday April 04, 2024 @08:59AM
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My weirdest Frost experience has been "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." My child received the gift of a lavishly illustrated picture book with the verse printed in it. The poem is so desolate, but as far as I could tell, neither the illustrator, nor the publisher, nor the gift-giver, had given it a moment's thought. There was even an illustration of a cheery farmhouse, with yellow lantern light spilling out the windows onto the snow. This farmhouse is precisely absent in the poem.
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Re:America's Great Poet of Darkness: A Reconsideration of Ro...
by throw1234651234 on Thursday April 04, 2024 @10:54AM
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It's probably the only poem I tried to memorize other than "Good Timber" by Malloch. I am ashamed to say I forgot both, other than 4 lines about "the woods are lovely dark and deep, but I have promises to keep."
I don't really know Frost's other poems either.
Re:America's Great Poet of Darkness: A Reconsideration of Ro...
by PyWoody on Thursday April 04, 2024 @12:39PM
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A good Frost quick-hitter is
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
EDIT: If you're looking for one to memorize, I should say.