Tag Archives: Robert Frost

The ICEman Cometh

ICE’s attack on immigrants brings to mind Frost’s “Fire and Ice,” O’Neill’s “The Ice Man Cometh,” Stevens’s “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” and Niemöller’s “First They Came.”

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What to Make of a Diminished Month

“The Oven Bird” is a good poem to read when one is feeling old.

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Tales of Wood Splitting

In which I reflect on gathering and chopping wood.

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Dante’s Version of Heaven on Earth

In talking to Solomon in Paradiso, Dante gets a new vision of heaven on earth.

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Kennedy Defended Controversial Lit

J.F. Kennedy praised lit that challenges society.

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Before Vaccines: Home Burials

Poems like Frost’s “Home Burial” can bring home the reality of a child’s death.

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Reflecting on Career Paths Not Taken

In which I reflect on roads not taken in my career.

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Winter Solstice and Desert Places

In “Desert Places,” Frost finds despair in a handful of snow. Maybe he also has in mind Melville’s discourse on whiteness in “Moby Dick.”

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Thinned Back to Bare Wood

Hirshfield’s beautiful poem about autumn compares a stripped trees to a revered icon.

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