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The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged
A feast for lovers of American literature-the work of our greatest poet, redesigned and relaunched for a new generation of readers
No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From "The Road Not Taken" to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," he refined and even defined our sense of what poetry is and what it can do. T. S. Eliot judged him "the most eminent,...more
No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From "The Road Not Taken" to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," he refined and even defined our sense of what poetry is and what it can do. T. S. Eliot judged him "the most eminent,...more
Paperback, 2nd Revised Edition, 640 pages
Published
April 1st 2002
by Holt Paperbacks
(first published January 1st 1930)
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I've had this book for years. I have a paperback edition that is highlighted and dilapidated, so much so that I felt justified in buying the hardcover. I've read many of the poems over the years, but have yet to read it in its entirety. My goal is to do just that this year, and soon, but every time I read a poem I feel the need to read it several times. Frost's poems are seemingly simplistic, but they possess a depth that rewards repeated reading. Often times I reread a poem for the sheer enjoym...more
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Let me say that he is one of poets who have waken me up from my long sleep in "comfortable bed of uniformity and stagnancy". I used to think that being among the crowd was a safe way to live. Being uniform was my "template". In fact, now I learn that being myself -- that might be being different from you all -- is the safest mode anytime anywhere. And, I am sure that I won't be sorry for being uniquely ordinary as I am.
Of course "The Road Not taken" is still a uniform favorite os mine since most...more
Of course "The Road Not taken" is still a uniform favorite os mine since most...more
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Aug 23, 2007
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I think it's this version I have an old copy of this book. My grandma gave it to me for Christmas many years ago. I love Robert Frost. He's my first favorite poet and my favorite poem will always be The Road Not Taken. "And I, I took the road less traveled by and that has made all the difference." RF is my reason for loving words I think.
I love the few Robert Frost Poems I had read, so I felt like I hit the thrifting jackpot when I found the complete works.
Most of Frost’s poems center around nature, even the ones focusing on relationships are in a clear romantic nature setting, but I didn’t know that Frost was so good at capturing human interactions. I’ve only been exposed to his short poems, so I was surprised to find many long poems that included dialogue. I still tend to like the short ones better. I’m excited to see how his...more
Most of Frost’s poems center around nature, even the ones focusing on relationships are in a clear romantic nature setting, but I didn’t know that Frost was so good at capturing human interactions. I’ve only been exposed to his short poems, so I was surprised to find many long poems that included dialogue. I still tend to like the short ones better. I’m excited to see how his...more
I was intrigued to learn that Frost and Edward Thomas had met and spent time together in England before the first world war following on from a review of some of Frost's poetry by Thomas. I feel both that in some way that the two of these people are now coming together in my understanding is a sign both of the deficiencies in my education and that luckily there is ever more to discover about the world. I believe "The Road not taken" was inspired by some of the walks the two went on and that Fros...more
Jul 27, 2009
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He expertly articulates and captures those feelings inspired in us as children.
Wonderment and Beauty, Innocence, and Joyfulness, but also and equally, Loneliness Isolation and Desperation. Wisdom and Naivety.
Reading Frost is like traveling across New England With two people. The First incarnation a small enthusiastic and expressive child awe struck by the simple beauty of the landscape and changing seasons as he passes them by yearning to run ahead and spy what lay beyond the next bend.
The Seco...more
Wonderment and Beauty, Innocence, and Joyfulness, but also and equally, Loneliness Isolation and Desperation. Wisdom and Naivety.
Reading Frost is like traveling across New England With two people. The First incarnation a small enthusiastic and expressive child awe struck by the simple beauty of the landscape and changing seasons as he passes them by yearning to run ahead and spy what lay beyond the next bend.
The Seco...more
This contains 11 of Robert Frost's books ( A Boys Will , North Of Boston, ect) and over 300 of his poems. Hold this book in your hands and you will surely feel the enormity and importance of his works. Every poem is in it's original context and every classic such as "Fire and Ice and The Road Not Taken" remain as beautiful and vague as when you first read them. Living a life tragedy and sometimes isolation, Robert Frost incorporated the theme of nature into his poems and ended up creating some o...more
What an amazing poet! He dances with the words as he plays with your imagination. Frost's messages are sent simply yet powerfully in his ever-so-picturesque poems.
A Patch of Old Snow by Robert Frost
There's a patch of old snow in a corner
That I should have guessed
Was a blow-away paper the rain
Had brought to rest.
It is speckled with grime as if
Small print overspread it,
The news of a day I've forgotten --
If I ever read it.
Such a simple, yet graceful and powerful poem. A misplaced written informati...more
A Patch of Old Snow by Robert Frost
There's a patch of old snow in a corner
That I should have guessed
Was a blow-away paper the rain
Had brought to rest.
It is speckled with grime as if
Small print overspread it,
The news of a day I've forgotten --
If I ever read it.
Such a simple, yet graceful and powerful poem. A misplaced written informati...more
Poetry
This book contains a wonderful collection of poems but since there are so many I have decided to write my review on my favorite poem in this book The Road Not Taken. The Road Not Taken is the story of a man who is stuck between to roads and of course takes the one less traveled or not usually taken, but why did he take that road you might ask well in all actuality he is not talking about a literal road he is talking about life and how if you take the “road” most traveled then you are tryi...more
This book contains a wonderful collection of poems but since there are so many I have decided to write my review on my favorite poem in this book The Road Not Taken. The Road Not Taken is the story of a man who is stuck between to roads and of course takes the one less traveled or not usually taken, but why did he take that road you might ask well in all actuality he is not talking about a literal road he is talking about life and how if you take the “road” most traveled then you are tryi...more
Robert Frost wrote some stunning and thought provoking poems. Almost everyone has heard of "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" or "The Road Not Taken", but one of my all time favorites is "Desert Places". The last verse:
"They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars--on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places."
"They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars--on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places."
A wonderful collection of Robert Frost's poetry and 2 plays. In hindsight, I wish I would have kept a running list of the poems I loved the most. Of course,The Road Not Taken would be right up there among the best. One of his later poems I enjoyed was The Milky Way is a Cowpath. I love Frost's sense of humor; he never seems to take himself (or anything) too seriously compared to some poets. He never seems to be overwrought about any subject which makes his work easier to relax with. I prefer his...more
Oh, if there were only the words to express how I feel about Frost. There aren't the right words nor near enough. However, I do most expressively enjoy reading his poems. They buoy me.
I am usually a lover of short poems, yet, even in his longer poems a line or two will reverberate.
Most will recommend "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening", "The Road Not Taken" or "Nothing Gold Can Stay". There are reasons why they would recommend these poems, as they have merit. Yet, these are not the only poem...more
I am usually a lover of short poems, yet, even in his longer poems a line or two will reverberate.
Most will recommend "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening", "The Road Not Taken" or "Nothing Gold Can Stay". There are reasons why they would recommend these poems, as they have merit. Yet, these are not the only poem...more
It took me years to discover Robert Frost but having found him, I remain hooked. There is nothing over-complicated about the way in which he expresses ideas but I love how his words sing from the page - and how incisive are his observations into the stuff of life! I guess because he has known tragedy, I identify with his loss. His poems inspired me to visit his home in New England where he wrote of the path less trod. This particular work, probably his best known, has oft inspired me to think tw...more
The thing that makes this anthology different from other of Frosts' anthologies, is that in this particular collection, the poems are separated and categorized by which book of poetry they came from and the year in which they were written. Frost has a certain way of putting things. At first read, his poems seem clear and you know what he's talking about, however, looks can be deceiving. Once you start discussing and contemplating the metaphors in his poetry, you realize that it is not as easy as...more
always a favorite. kinda funny how it came to be a family favorite.....he was a college prof at Amherst College in Mass when my grandpa was in school and well, he taught my grandfather...how many people can say that?
Meh. While Frost has some legendary and exquisite pieces of poetry, overall his work is redundant and boring. An entire book of his poems, all focusing on the same basic plot lines, is incentive for nice, long nap.
since i don't know when i have been reading and delving into and enjoying frost's words and spirit. even today this new england poet, with his rural, leafy, and snowy images can awake "something" in my western city-dweller's psyche.
i remember vividly the day he read "the gift outright" in the freezing, blustering wind, aauguration the the inauguration of JFK.
as a senior in high school, at the pontifical college josephinum, i suggested we name our yearbook "the road less traveled by" i still have...more
Of course, this book has all the old favorites, all the great masterpieces. But one of my favorite poems is the relatively obscure "An Old Man's Winter Night." That poem amazes me every time I read it...
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While striking, unique, scattered with profound verse, I just couldn't jive with you Mr. Frost. I flipped through this book, because honestly I'm not going to read 600 pages of random Robert Frost. So, I started by just checking out all the classic Frost poems from: "The Road Not Taken", "Fire and Ice", "Dust of Snow", to "Birches". They are pretty. I actually enjoyed a few of them, thought they were unique and beautiful, especially, "Death of a Hired Man" and "A Considerable Speck".
I learned t...more
I learned t...more
My November Guest
My Sorrow, when she's here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
She walks the sodden pasture lane.
Her pleasure will not let me stay.
She talks and I am fain to list:
She's glad the birds are gone away,
She's glad her simple worsted grey
Is silver now with clinging mist.
The desolate, deserted trees,
The faded earth, the heavy sky,
The beauties she so truly sees,
She thinks I have no eye for these,
And vexes me for...more
My Sorrow, when she's here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
She walks the sodden pasture lane.
Her pleasure will not let me stay.
She talks and I am fain to list:
She's glad the birds are gone away,
She's glad her simple worsted grey
Is silver now with clinging mist.
The desolate, deserted trees,
The faded earth, the heavy sky,
The beauties she so truly sees,
She thinks I have no eye for these,
And vexes me for...more
I've loved Frost's poems for years. "Birches," "A Road Not Taken," a version of which I've sung, "Time to Talk," are just a few of my favorites.
Incredible index by title and first line. I always find something new and exciting in this book every time I open it.
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When I was younger I detested Frost. He seemed so unoriginal, so boring, so monotonous. I attribute that to my fixation with E.E. Cummings, science-fiction and fantasy, and experimental fiction and poetry besides. Everything else was boring to me. Now I look at his work differently. I am able to appreciate his simple truths, his elegance, his naturalism. I found myself coming back to read his poems simply because as I lived and grew wiser, I found myself remembering passages of his that I had be...more
Whose woods these are...I think I know,
His house is in the village though
He will not mind 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 of the year. When I had to memorize Frost in High School, little did I know how thankful I would be to carry these words
with me wherever I go. Hopefully, my students feel the same way after
they labored to memorize the poems I assigned.
If...more
His house is in the village though
He will not mind 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 of the year. When I had to memorize Frost in High School, little did I know how thankful I would be to carry these words
with me wherever I go. Hopefully, my students feel the same way after
they labored to memorize the poems I assigned.
If...more
Frost ranks among the greatest of American poets. His language is accessible and specific. His dramatic monologues can be understood – the mystery is in the thing itself, not in the language used to describe it. Many poems in this collection are true masterworks of world literature. “Birches” and “Mending Wall” are perfect examples of a poetry so specific and accurate that they are worthy of study. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” both have a mystery of their ow...more
Still not 100% on what he meant by the "sound of sense". Perhaps he meant the shape of the sound we unconsciously attach to our meaning, as we speak to one another, such that if you overheard a conversation in front of the general store, but were too far away to make out the words used, the sound of the voices would still carry meaning, and a recognizable one at that.
May I also lodge a complaint against his popular reputation. He is a dark, nigh on terrifying poet, and his negative conception of...more
May I also lodge a complaint against his popular reputation. He is a dark, nigh on terrifying poet, and his negative conception of...more
Robert Frost is a very readable poet. Speaks of things most of think about and writes them in a voice that we feel could be our own.
The Pasture
I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
I'll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):
I shan't be gone long.--You come too.
I'm going out to fetch the little calf
That's standing by the mother. It's so young
It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
I shan't be gone long.--You come too.
The Pasture
I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
I'll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):
I shan't be gone long.--You come too.
I'm going out to fetch the little calf
That's standing by the mother. It's so young
It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
I shan't be gone long.--You come too.
This book will always have the most special place in my heart. This was the first volume I ever read of poetry. To this day, I still do not know what compelled me to walk into that book store to buy a book, nor what led me to the poetry section, but whatever it was I am very thankful it occurred. When I read Frost, it was as if a light bulb went on in my head and I was a reader. I had never read much prior to this book, but it spawned in me a voracious appetite for books and reading. Thank you R...more
Jan 23, 2009
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Rereading this off and on in a recent two-week casual poetry bender, I have come to respect Robert Frost anew. Now, that doesn't mean that he would be my first choice were I to peel a book off shelf all willy-nilly and in the moment, but it does mean that I could see myself some years from now thinking fondly on a poem of his whilst staring at a winter-barren tree filled with squirrel nests and smoking an angry cigarette in the smaller hours of the morning. See? Because his lines are perfect rui...more
Robert Frost has the most beautiful poetry! My dad used to read to me from this book every night before bed and it has been a fovorite ever since. When I was little my favorite one was The pasture. Now I love "Reluctance"
OUT through the fields and the woods
And over the walls I have wended;
I have climbed the hills of view
And looked at the world, and descended;
I have come by the highway home, 5
And lo, it is ended.
The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping...more
OUT through the fields and the woods
And over the walls I have wended;
I have climbed the hills of view
And looked at the world, and descended;
I have come by the highway home, 5
And lo, it is ended.
The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping...more
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Flinty, moody, plainspoken and deep, Robert Frost was one of America's most popular 20th-century poets. Frost was farming in Derry, New Hampshire when, at the age of 38, he sold the farm, uprooted his family and moved to England, where he devoted himself to his poetry. His first two books of verse, A Boy's Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914), were immediate successes. In 1915 he returned to the...more
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“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars—on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.”
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Between stars—on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.”
“For I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.”
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