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Apr 17, 2009 05:42PM
I just love Robert Frost. His words just so illuminating. One of my most favorite poets.
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Frost is one of my favourite poets! What poems of his do you like Emilee? I read 'Out, Out' around three years ago, and it was like being punched in the stomach. Its jaw-dropping.
Out- Out,
The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard
And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,
Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.
And from there those that lifted eyes could count
Five mountain ranges one behind the other
Under the sunset far into Vermont.
And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled,
As it ran light, or had to bear a load.
And nothing happened: day was all but done.
Call it a day, I wish they might have said
To please the boy by giving him the half hour
That a boy counts so much when saved from work.
His sister stood beside them in her apron
To tell them "Supper." At the word, the saw,
As if to prove saws knew what supper meant,
Leaped out at the boy's hand, or seemed to leap--
He must have given the hand. However it was,
Neither refused the meeting. But the hand!
The boy's first outcry was a rueful laugh,
As he swung toward them holding up the hand
Half in appeal, but half as if to keep
The life from spilling. Then the boy saw all--
Since he was old enough to know, big boy
Doing a man's work, though a child at heart--
He saw all spoiled. "Don't let him cut my hand off--
The doctor, when he comes. Don't let him, sister!"
So. But the hand was gone already.
The doctor put him in the dark of ether.
He lay and puffed his lips out with his breath.
And then--the watcher at his pulse took fright.
No one believed. They listened at his heart.
Little--less--nothing!--and that ended it.
No more to build on there. And they, since they
Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.
Out- Out,
The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard
And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,
Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.
And from there those that lifted eyes could count
Five mountain ranges one behind the other
Under the sunset far into Vermont.
And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled,
As it ran light, or had to bear a load.
And nothing happened: day was all but done.
Call it a day, I wish they might have said
To please the boy by giving him the half hour
That a boy counts so much when saved from work.
His sister stood beside them in her apron
To tell them "Supper." At the word, the saw,
As if to prove saws knew what supper meant,
Leaped out at the boy's hand, or seemed to leap--
He must have given the hand. However it was,
Neither refused the meeting. But the hand!
The boy's first outcry was a rueful laugh,
As he swung toward them holding up the hand
Half in appeal, but half as if to keep
The life from spilling. Then the boy saw all--
Since he was old enough to know, big boy
Doing a man's work, though a child at heart--
He saw all spoiled. "Don't let him cut my hand off--
The doctor, when he comes. Don't let him, sister!"
So. But the hand was gone already.
The doctor put him in the dark of ether.
He lay and puffed his lips out with his breath.
And then--the watcher at his pulse took fright.
No one believed. They listened at his heart.
Little--less--nothing!--and that ended it.
No more to build on there. And they, since they
Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.
HE is a favorite and I love lots of his poems. Most favorite would be "Nothing Gold Can Stay", "Fire and Ice", "Mending Wall", "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", "The Road Not Taken", "Locked Out", and "My Butterfly". Just to name a few. They are the one's that I love the most.
Roisu: which are your favorites other then Out-out?
Roisu: which are your favorites other then Out-out?
Loads! Like pretty much everyone who knows Robert Frost's poetry, I like 'The Road Not Taken'. I think that everyone can relate to it at some point in their lives.
Another poem of his that I love is 'Design'. That 'fat white' spider makes me shudder, but I love the message of the poem. I love 'Mending Wall' too, its fantastic! I don't know the other ones you mentioned though, I will have to check them out.
Another poem of his that I love is 'Design'. That 'fat white' spider makes me shudder, but I love the message of the poem. I love 'Mending Wall' too, its fantastic! I don't know the other ones you mentioned though, I will have to check them out.
I have several of his books but my favorite is his complete work as they are all in one book together.
Thank you, I had forgotten Robert Frost except for his The Road Less Taken. Shall check our library system and hope to find his complete works there.
It was well worth the buy. ISBN 0-8050-7365-5 if that helps!
I'm not a lover of poetry, but Robert Frost has brought me closer to understanding with "The Road Less Taken". ;o)
