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Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays (LOA #81) by Mark Richardson, Richard Poirier
holodoxa's review
5.0
Robert Frost is one of the most celebrated American poets of the 20th century - likely one of the few American poets that a random American could name off the top of their head. Frost is a master of language, with a remarkable ability to craft poems that are both accessible and profound. His poems often deal with simple, everyday subjects, but they are imbued with a deep philosophical and emotional resonance. He is also noteworthy for its use of imagery and metaphor, including a knack for using vivid and evocative imagery to convey complex ideas and emotions. His metaphors are often surprising and powerful, and they help to give his poetry a timeless quality. An example of Frost's use of metaphor can be found in his poem "The Death of the Hired Man." In this poem, Frost uses the metaphor of a house to represent the relationship between the speaker and the hired man, Silas. The speaker of the poem is the owner of the house, and Silas is a hired hand who works on the farm. The poem begins:
In this stanza, Frost uses the metaphor of a house to represent the idea of acceptance and belonging. The speaker is saying that a home is a place where you are always welcome, regardless of whether or not you deserve it. The use of the metaphor allows Frost to explore the theme of love and forgiveness in a simple and powerful way.
Some of the most famous poems by Robert Frost include "The Road Not Taken," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Mending Wall," "Birches," "The Death of the Hired Man," "Fire and Ice," "The tuft of flowers," "After Apple-Picking," "The silken tent," and "Acquainted with the night."
Brief Biography
He was born in 1874 in San Francisco, and he grew up in New England. He attended Dartmouth College and Harvard University, but he did not graduate from either institution. Instead, he worked various jobs, including teaching and farming, before eventually making a living as a poet.
Frost's first book of poems, A Boy's Will, was published in 1913, and it was followed by a series of highly successful collections, including North of Boston (1914), Mountain Interval (1916), and New Hampshire (1923), which won him the Pulitzer Prize. Frost continued to write and publish throughout his life, and he was awarded three more Pulitzer Prizes for poetry.
Frost's poetry is influenced by a wide range of sources, including the Bible, English and American poetry, and his own experiences in rural New England. He was particularly drawn to the work of poets like William Shakespeare, John Keats, and Emily Dickinson. Frost's work also reflects his deep love of the natural world, and he often writes about the beauty and mystery of the outdoors.
An interesting and little remarked on tidbit about Frost was that he was a conservative and staunch individualist who supported the Republican Party and was a vocal critic of the New Deal. Although it is little recognized that many of the most influential American poets were on the political right (sometimes radically so).
Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays should be a mainstay for bookshelves in American households. I hope to see it our your shelf when I visit.
"Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.
I should have called it
Something you somehow haven't to deserve."
In this stanza, Frost uses the metaphor of a house to represent the idea of acceptance and belonging. The speaker is saying that a home is a place where you are always welcome, regardless of whether or not you deserve it. The use of the metaphor allows Frost to explore the theme of love and forgiveness in a simple and powerful way.
Some of the most famous poems by Robert Frost include "The Road Not Taken," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Mending Wall," "Birches," "The Death of the Hired Man," "Fire and Ice," "The tuft of flowers," "After Apple-Picking," "The silken tent," and "Acquainted with the night."
Brief Biography
He was born in 1874 in San Francisco, and he grew up in New England. He attended Dartmouth College and Harvard University, but he did not graduate from either institution. Instead, he worked various jobs, including teaching and farming, before eventually making a living as a poet.
Frost's first book of poems, A Boy's Will, was published in 1913, and it was followed by a series of highly successful collections, including North of Boston (1914), Mountain Interval (1916), and New Hampshire (1923), which won him the Pulitzer Prize. Frost continued to write and publish throughout his life, and he was awarded three more Pulitzer Prizes for poetry.
Frost's poetry is influenced by a wide range of sources, including the Bible, English and American poetry, and his own experiences in rural New England. He was particularly drawn to the work of poets like William Shakespeare, John Keats, and Emily Dickinson. Frost's work also reflects his deep love of the natural world, and he often writes about the beauty and mystery of the outdoors.
An interesting and little remarked on tidbit about Frost was that he was a conservative and staunch individualist who supported the Republican Party and was a vocal critic of the New Deal. Although it is little recognized that many of the most influential American poets were on the political right (sometimes radically so).
Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays should be a mainstay for bookshelves in American households. I hope to see it our your shelf when I visit.
renee_pompeii's review
4.0
I don't know why I hadn't read Frost before, maybe I just imagined he was just another dead white guy illuminati blow hard. But man, he's fantastic...down to earth, funny, at times dark, at times philosophical (but not in a pretentious d-bag way.) I especially liked his astronomy poems.
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