Robert Frost
I appreciate the poetry of Robert Frost very much. It often evokes memories of my New England childhood. It is very witty and insightful. He makes me think to myself, “Now why didn’t I think of that?” Sometimes he makes me think, “Yes, I have noticed the same thing myself but could not have expressed it so well.”
Frost’s works are generally traditional and conventional in form, but they are very modern in content.
Dust of Snow
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
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.
The leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day,
Nothing gold can stay.
5 responses so far ↓
mmacmurray // April 22, 2008 at 9:36 pm |
I really enjoy Frost’s poetry, too. It reminds me of my New England childhood. My dad, who taught American Lit at the high school level, always included Frost in the poetry section of the courses. This poem, The Pasture, is one he used to quote to me when he wanted me to go with him somewhere. Now he recites it, and others, for my kids.
The Pasture
I’m going out to clean the pasture spring;
I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):
I sha’n’t be gone long.—You come too.
I’m going out to fetch the little calf
That’s standing by the mother. It’s so young,
It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
I sha’n’t be gone long.—You come too.
RG’s Response: I like that one, too. I almost included it in my post. Thanks for sharing it and also for sharing your memories.
helenl // April 23, 2008 at 4:15 pm |
“Dust of Snow” is just lovely.
Vicky // April 23, 2008 at 5:52 pm |
Every time I read “The Pasture” I get tears in my eyes and a big lump in my throat as I relate in a personal way to it.
marnini // July 22, 2008 at 8:41 am |
I love Robert Frost and Nothing Gold Can Stay is one of my all time favorites!
I can relate to reading his writings and asking yourself how does he make it seem so easy.
Bri. // November 18, 2008 at 11:54 am |
I like Robert Frost because of my reading textbook. It has a few pages of his poems. My favorite is Fire and Ice. I even have it memorized:
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 say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
RG’s Reply: Good for you! Keep up the good work.