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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I think about this poem every day of my life, and I have it mounted on canvas in my office at work. I don't consider myself a poetry buff, and usually I can't follow poems or understand their meaning. Aside from this one, I can count on one hand the number of poems I've ever found that really spoke to me: Gift by Czeslaw Milosz, To Look at Any Thing by John Moffitt, Don't Quit by Edgar A. Guest, and You Reading This, Be Ready by William Stafford. That's it. Those are what I would consider Poetry's Greatest Hits.
That's what is so great about poetry: it's personal. It either speaks to you, or it's just lines of words. Everyone has their own "Poetry's Greatest Hits."
The Road Not Taken speaks to me. It's about the weight of our choices, but it is presented so eloquently with beautiful phrases such as "and both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black..."
And then for someone to take these beautiful words and make a book such as this to match it...
Wow.
That's what is so great about poetry: it's personal. It either speaks to you, or it's just lines of words. Everyone has their own "Poetry's Greatest Hits."
The Road Not Taken speaks to me. It's about the weight of our choices, but it is presented so eloquently with beautiful phrases such as "and both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black..."
And then for someone to take these beautiful words and make a book such as this to match it...
Wow.
Good introduction Frost's earlier years with a good collection of his early poems.
i love the road not taken, which is so simplistic and straightforward, down to its core about choices and regrets in life. the rest of the poems seem fine to me, but some of them are overlong and half of the collection is filled up by these narrative-based poems. that said, I'm not so into them even though they're lovely as well.
hopeful
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
It's ok. I'm just not a poetry fan and don't understand it
This picture book is based on the poem by Robert Frost. The illustrations are beautiful and match the story of poem. This would be a good book to read to upper elementary children during poetry month or to introduce Robert Frost.
SUMMARY: The best-loved poems from one of American literature's most towering figures No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From "The Road Not Taken" to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," he refined and even defined our sense of what poetry is and what it can do. T. S. Eliot judged him "the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet now living," and he is the only writer in history to have been awarded four Pulitzer Prizes. Henry Holt is proud to announce the republication of four editions of Frost's most beloved work for a new generation of poets and readers. In this brilliant selection of Frost's classic poems, students and scholars alike will encounter a body of work central to American culture.
Not my type of poetry as it turns out, but I can respect the writing and style.
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