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Probably more of a 3.75. I highly recommend reading the introduction written by David Orr- the best introduction to any work I have probably ever read, through that’s a weird thing to commend.
Anyways, poems that I loved/have a lot of thoughts about:
- into my own
- a late walk
- flower gathering
- in neglect
- mowing
- mending wall
- the death of the hired man
- the mountain
- after apple picking
- the wood pile
- the road not taken (obviously)
- birches
- out, out
Poems I liked and found compelling:
- storm fear
- revelation
- home burial
- the black cottage
- a servant to servants
- the housekeeper
- a patch of old snow
- meeting and passing
- the hill wife
- the bonfire
- the exposed nest
Anyways, poems that I loved/have a lot of thoughts about:
- into my own
- a late walk
- flower gathering
- in neglect
- mowing
- mending wall
- the death of the hired man
- the mountain
- after apple picking
- the wood pile
- the road not taken (obviously)
- birches
- out, out
Poems I liked and found compelling:
- storm fear
- revelation
- home burial
- the black cottage
- a servant to servants
- the housekeeper
- a patch of old snow
- meeting and passing
- the hill wife
- the bonfire
- the exposed nest
Are we all sick to death of this poem and several others he wrote? Yes. Are they still good poems? Also yes.
We love the things we love for what they are.
It was such a pleasure to go back and read some classic Robert Frost - I can see the clear through-line from his work to some of my favorite contemporary American poets and authors like Mary Oliver and Barbara Kingsolver. I surprised myself by really enjoying Frost's lengthy narrative poems (the majority of North of Boston) - they often feature a few characters in a single setting but the conversations and revelations are life-changing.
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
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challenging
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
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hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
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reflective
slow-paced
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[digital] The poetry is excellent, but I wish there were more selections or that they were organized better.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those
who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice is also great
And would suffice.
A collection of poems centering around rural life, farmlands and ordinary people.
Robert Frost's poems tend to study and examine social and philosophical themes, with their central idea being man versus nature.
medium-paced
reflective