" . . . many of the lyrics as well as the monologues suggest an interior darkness, they [also] have the color and quality of his New England woods, being lovely as well as dark and deep." -- commentator Louis Untermeyer, on page 264I don't read a lot of poetry, but I've been interested in Robert Frost's work ever since first reading both his 'Mending Wall' (known for the oft-quoted line "good fences make good neighbors") and 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' (referenced by this edition's co...

Highly recommended: reading through a whole book of one poet's work. If that sounds daunting, let me assure you: This book, which isn't even a complete collection of Frost's poems, took me eight months to get through. I read when I felt like it, sometimes several poems in a sitting, sometimes just one before bed. Whole weeks went by when I wasn't in a poem-y mood. At first it was really hard to sit down and just read a poem but after a while, even though it still took concentration, it felt more...

It is something of a paradox that Frost, our most well-known poet, is also our most underrated poet. His over-familiarity has given a false image of him; people think he wrote Hallmark cards. Reading his poetry closely is a fascinating education. He is one of the darkest, most illusive American writers in some moods; in others, he is cynical and enigmatic. If you appreciate poetry, read Frost. If all you know is "The Road Not Taken" and you think Frost is an artless hack writing verse to be fram...

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree,And climb black branches up a snow-white trunkToward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,But dipped its top and set me down again.That would be good both going and coming back.One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

I love loVE LOVE this collection. I could get lost in it for days (and that is my plan).

New Enlarged Pocket Anthology of Robert Frost’s Poems: With an Introduction and Commentary by Louis Untermeyer.  Pocket Books: 1971 (29th printing):My first introduction to Robert Frost came in high school, specifically “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” These are his two most famous poems and probably most people have some familiarity with them. I like them and both spoke to me.  I wouldn’t say they inspired me or influenced my own poetry, which developed much late...

I own a 1946 edition of this book that I have carried with me around the country and world. It is falling apart now, but it is one of my favorite possessions.Where had I heard this wind beforeChange like this to a deeper roar?What would it take my standing there for,Holding open a restive door,Looking down hill to a frothy shore?Summer was past and day was past.Sombre clouds in the west were massed.Out on the porch's sagging floor,Leaves got up in a coil and hissed,Blindly struck at my knee and

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claimBecause it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I...

I fell in love with poetry back in high school: analysing and criticising poems had become one of my favourite activities, and this lasted until I finished university. I have mainly studied Italian poetry (due to my Italian literature classes) and British poetry (due to my English Literature classes, focused mostly on British and Irish authors). And yet, I can't seem to appreciate American poetry (with some exceptions, like T.S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath, who are some of my favourite poets, and a b...

There were a few poems I enjoyed in this collection, but I think, on the whole, Robert Frost’s style of poetry is not my cup of tea.

I was impressed by the wide range of topics Frost wrote poems about. Some of the poems read like short stories; one of them had a Poe feel to it.In all honesty, I bought this poetry collection solely for The Road Not Taken, but there were quite a lot of good poems in this one.

This book was bought in error and is not the complete works of Robert Frost, just a selection.

I had read some of his poems, like "Mending the wall" and "the snowstorm", but not all of them, until now. I had not realised how great and famous Frost was in his lifetime. Now I understand better.I just love and admire his farmland poetry, it reminds me of so many things of my own young life in the countryside (in Austria though). And then he enchants with his deep human knowledge, amorous, grumpy, hopeful or disappointed. He sings of trees and flowers and birds and butterflys even ants and in...

I've always loved Robert Frost, even if I knew only his most popular crumpets of verse, like the hyper-quoted and often-tattooed "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep."So I decided to methodically read his entire collection of poms, a bit at a time, and I've been doing it steadily since last year. Few other poems command such a strong response in me, even if I did stumble upon his love of form and relativ...

The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my lengthI failed to connect. There were certainly aspects I appreciated. My personal deficits didn't allow me to internalize much of this. I harbor doubts I am the ideal reader for Frost's dialogue's in verse, there's hardship and an embittered politeness about the course of events. I was sometimes struck by a line, an image. This appeared to pass as further rituals were plumbed over the course of a dialog...

--The PastureA Boy's Will--Into My Own--Ghost House--My November Guest--Love and a Question--A Late Walk--Stars--Storm Fear--Wind and Window Flower--To the Thawing Wind--A Prayer in Spring--Flower-Gathering--Rose Pogonias--Waiting--In a Vale--A Dream Pang--In Neglect--The Vantage Point--Mowing--Going for Water--Revelation--The Trial by Existence--The Tuft of Flowers--Pan with Us--The Demiurge's Laugh--Now Close the Windows--In Hardwood Groves--A Line-Storm Song--October--My Butterfly--Reluctance...

Spent my morning with these trying to find RF's critical assessment of fame, how his neighbors come last to recognize him. Turns out, it's not in the Complete, since he was elected Poet Laureate of Vermont (where he'd moved from N.H. forty years before) in 1961, at age 85. Year after he recited from memory at JFK's Inauguration. Wryly, Frost responds "On Being Chosen Poet of Vermont," "Breathes there a bard who isn't moved/ When he finds his verse is understood…By his country and his neighborhoo...

Is Robert Frost my favorite poet ever? Possibly, yes, he very well could be. This collection of Frost poems has me pulling it off the shelf every time I need a friend. It doesn't matter what he writes about, it is always welcoming and approachable. He's got that intrigue in his words that never lets go. He always has some wisdom to share, and he makes me feel like he cares about those who are reading his poems.