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Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken

February 25, 2009

How about a couple of hiking metaphors today? I’m going to semi-steal a bit from my friend Alessandra’s blog  – she posted Robert Frost‘s “The Road Not Taken” a few days ago.  I haven’t read this poem in quite a while (probably since high school), but there’s still something about it that resonates with me.  [...]

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“Out, Out”

February 7, 2009

Today’s installment of poetry appreciation week is a two-fer.  The basis is the phrase “out, out”; Robert Frost’s poem is supposedly a direct reference to Shakespeare‘s lines from Macbeth: To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted [...]

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Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

February 4, 2009

by Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening [...]

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At Church This Morning

February 1, 2009

Scott and I will be at church this morning, as I mentioned in yesterday’s post.  Today’s reading will be from the Gospel According to (Robert) Frost: Pan With Us Pan came out of the woods one day— His skin and his hair and his eyes were gray, The gray of the moss of walls were [...]

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