Questions tagged [robert-frost]
For questions about the poet Robert Frost or his works. Questions about his short poems should be tagged with the [poetry] tag as well.
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What is the "slow wheel" in Frost's "Into My Own"?
Into My Own, by Robert Frost (first two stanzas):
One of my wishes is that those dark trees,
So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze,
Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom,
But ...
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What does “be one traveler” mean in “The Road Not Taken”?
In “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, the first stanza reads as follows:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down ...
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Why might Robert Frost specify a ' long two-pointed ladder' in the poem 'After Apple Picking'?
The opening lines of Robert Frost's 'After Apple Picking' read:
My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still,
And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
Beside it, and there ...
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What did Robert Frost mean in his April 7 1926 letter to B.F. Skinner?
What does Frost mean by "Stevenson's in favor [...] consumptive"?
"Hardy's against God for the blunder of sex"?
"Sinclair Lewis's against small American towns"?
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Do the opening lines of Frost’s poem “After Apple-Picking” contain a biblical reference?
Robert Frost's poem ‘After Apple-Picking’, collected in North of Boston (1914), is a well-known poem on man’s encounter with the natural world, probing the dilemma of his existence.
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What figure of speech is "change of mood" in Robert Frost's "Dust of Snow"?
From "Dust of Snow" by Robert Frost:
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
What figure of speech, or poetic device, is used in the line, "A ...
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Did those things really happen to Robert Frost?
The poems of Robert Frost generally start with some events that are quite common, like
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To ...
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Why do I have a different version of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"?
The first stanza of Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" reads as follows in its original publication in New Hampshire (1923):
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is ...
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Who is being referenced in the opening line of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"?
The first stanza of Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" goes like this:
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping ...
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Meaning of this line from "Birches"
I was reading "Birches" by Robert Frost. I am having difficulty in understanding the meaning of a line.
Please refer to this link for the full poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44260/...
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What is the literal meaning of this line in "Birches"
I was reading "Birches" by Robert Frost. I am having difficulty in understanding the meaning of a part of a line.
Please refer to Poetry Foundation for the full poem.
What is the meaning of ...
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Putting 'gently' out of pain
I'm reading "A Roadside Stand" by Robert Frost, which you can read online. Below I have given the particular paragraph.
In the line -
To put these people at one stroke out of their pain
Robert ...
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What is Robert Frost 'owning' in these lines?
I read the poem "A Roadside Stand" by Robert Frost, and I have accumulated a few questions through the poem. So, I will be posting some questions from the same poem, if you can please answer my other ...
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How did "they make them sleep all day" in A Roadside Stand?
I read the poem 'A Roadside Stand' by Robert Frost, and I have accumulated a few questions through the poem. So, I will be posting some questions from the same poem, if you can please answer my other ...
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What does 'trusting sorrow' mean here?
I read the poem 'A Roadside Stand' by Robert Frost, and I have accumulated a few questions through the poem. So, I will be posting some questions from the same poem, if you can please answer my other ...
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Use of 'this crossly' in the 'A Roadside Stand' by Robert Frost?
What does author want to convey by saying/using 'this crossly' as two instances in the poem? What do they signify/show?
Thanks to anyone who takes his time to help me out :)
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What are the 'N' and 'S' signs in the 'A Roadside Stand' by Robert Frost?
I read the poem "A Roadside Stand" by Robert Frost. I am confused by the reference to "N" and "S" signs in tree poem. What do those signs refer to?
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Where did the Robert Frost Quote "If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane" come from?
I have found numerous sources that attribute the quote "If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane" to Robert Frost but for the life of me, I cannot find when / where he actually said / wrote it.
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How to scan Robert Frost's "For Once, Then, Something"
I just read a fascinating blog post titled "Frost, Hendecasyllabics & For Once, Then, Something". The blog post describes the challenges of scanning Robert Frost's poem "For Once, Then, Something" ...
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When did Robert Frost write "Two Tramps in Mud Time"?
Googling the poem, and utilizing Wikipedia, I could not find the answer to my question. The book I own ("101 Great American Poems") which contains the poem also does not give the year of its creation -...
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Has Robert Frost ever written a poem that doesn't rhyme?
I know a few of Robert Frost's poems, though I'm not an expert, and I've noticed that they all have long and elaborate rhyme schemes. Is this true for all of his poems? Has he ever written a poem ...
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Why does the narrator in "Stopping by Woods" stop by the woods?
In Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by 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 ...
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What does "The Edge of Doom" mean?
The following stanza is from Robert Frost's Into My Own:
One of my wishes is that those dark trees,
So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze,
Were not, as ’twere, the merest mask ...
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Why does Robert Frost contradict himself in "The Road Not Taken"
In Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" (which you can read online), the narrator gives two contradictory reasons for taking a particular fork in the road.
At the beginning of the poem, the ...
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