My Key Western Civ course isn’t complete without this notable denizen of the island… But I really can’t stand Robert Frost, and my effort to find ONE poem of his about which I can think of something to say is going very badly… Stay tuned.
My Key Western Civ course isn’t complete without this notable denizen of the island… But I really can’t stand Robert Frost, and my effort to find ONE poem of his about which I can think of something to say is going very badly… Stay tuned.
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March 11th, 2009 at 5:56AM
I agree with you on Frost, UD. He feels a little too….something…sometimes. Direct? Hallmark-y?
How about "The Death of the Hired Man"?
March 11th, 2009 at 8:47AM
How about "The Silken Tent."
March 11th, 2009 at 8:51AM
AMAZING that you say that, Jonathan, because it’s the one Frost poem I really admire. Again, can’t say that I LOVE it, but every time I read it I’m nodding my head and saying “This is a spectacular poem.”
Okay. I’ll see if it’s online and see what I can do with it. Thanks.
March 11th, 2009 at 2:37PM
What about "Once By the Pacific"?
March 11th, 2009 at 2:49PM
I’ll take a look at that one, too, johnshade. If it’s on line. Thanks.
March 11th, 2009 at 2:56PM
http://www.internal.org/view_poem.phtml?poemID=122
Once by the Pacific
by: Robert Frost
The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in,
And thought of doing something to the shore
That water never did to land before.
The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,
Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.
You could not tell, and yet it looked as if
The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,
The cliff in being backed by continent;
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God’s last Put out the Light was spoken.
March 11th, 2009 at 2:57PM
Lending new meaning to the term "sea-monster".