In a Dark Time … The Eye Begins to See

I’ve started re-reading, or perhaps reading for the first time, The Complete Poems of Robert Frost, 1949, and will admit that I am finding it harder to read his poems than I expected. Although I’m sure I had to read many of Frost’s poems in classes I took, I’m not sure I ever really [...]

The first poem you encounter when reading “North of Boston” is the much-anthologized “Mending Wall,” and as I read it I thought to myself, “I hope I find a poem that I like better than this to write about.” It’s not that I don’t like the poem. I liked it when I first read it [...]

Although arguably not as good as more famous poems like “The Road Not Taken,” “Birches,” or “Out, Out” in Mountain Interval, “Bond and Free” still manages to intrigue me: BOND AND FREE Love has earth to which she clings With hills and circling arms about– Wall within wall to shut fear out. But Thought has need [...]

Despite containing the famous “Stoping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening,” Frost’s New Hampshire contains poems that are quite different from those in earlier sections. In some ways these poems about Paul Bunyun’s wife and famous New England witches remind me of Carl Sandburg’s, though I prefer Sandburg’s. Though “Wild [...]