Tag Archives: Robert Frost

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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The World Will End in Fire AND Ice

With extreme climate, the world in likely to end (to cite Robert Frost) in fire AND ice.

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