Nothing really wild and crazy in this volume. As normally happens, the poems that one has run into before are the best ones (thus, they have been passed on). "Mending Wall" and "After Apple Picking" were the only two I knew previously, and I'm pretty sure they were the best two in there. However, there is some other neat stuff to be found: he has a lot of long, dialogue poems that tell Hemmingway-esqe stories, in addition to some exciting little love poems I didn't know were in his vein. "Asking...

This book easily lives up to its recognition, for my appreciation for Frost has only deepened to greater level. The real two gems are, "The Wind and The Window Flower" and " The November Guest", in both of these poems Frost goes beyond the borders of mere observation and into the realm of metaphor. The Wind and The Window Flower depict two souls indifferent to any venture into love, the last line alludes to some pangs of regret since the wind is a hundred miles away and the opportunity is far go...

Wow, Frost's first collection was bad. It's actually encouraging as a poet to read those stinkers in the first part of this Dover edition and then continue on to a second collection improved by an order of magnitude.His longer poems depart from the popular picture of Frost I've heard. He was certainly looking back at the 19th century (fair enough--1914 I think for the second collection). The long poems remind me of Browning's monologues, but at times, with the little scenes and dialogues, I thin...

⭒ 3.5 ⭒A masterpiece!This book is divided into two types of poetry styles: rural (A Boy’s Will) and conversational (North of Boston).I loved the rural part more; it’s filled with natural and peaceful atmosphere.I’m not into poetry and hardly know anything about it, this book was unconditional pick, I just wanted to read something out of my radar. Basically, I needed a refreshing change.And it was fortunately a great pick.

This was a nice read. While the first part is not as polished as the second half there is a good reason for that. A Boy's Will are all of his first poems from when he was a boy. While good they are do not have the depth some of the later ones do. But they have a wonderful innocence about nature and the world around him that is lacking in the later works. I found the early ones charming and the later ones thought provoking. Especially the one on the Death of a Hired Man as well as the one about t...

After a year of reading modern poetry, off and on, amidst the pages of fiction and non-fiction, the works of talent and the works of coffee table fluff, Robert Frost feels like a breath of fresh air, a place in time, in a prior time, well before the world of the poets I read today. A great deal of Frost needs a second, third, and fourth read to follow, reads I am in no hurry to do right now. But despite all the traditional rhymes, I found reading Frost like sitting in someone else’s dream, watch...

From “Reluctance”“Ah, when to the heart of manWas it ever less than a treasonTo go with the drift of things,To yield with a grace to reason,And bow and accept the endOf a love or a season.”*Hello there dear readers!This one was another one I found at my library's used bookstore. That place is turning into a real gold mine for me. A few reasons for picking it: I've never really read much Frost, maybe a poem here and there (of course, everyone's read “The Road Not Taken”), let alone a complete col...

Once again, I am fascinated by this magical poet... I needed a book of his, so I can enjoy his writings and get to know him more, so how better to do it than reading his first steps to poetry?He has the ability to take a plain subtle thing, like mowing or wandering, and reveal unimaginable beauty. Because beauty is just a perspective: in a gale you can see fear or you can see adventure. As expected, most of his subjects derive from the rural life in America, mainly in Autumn or Winter, so we get...

The edition I have combines Frost's first two collections, "A Boy's Will" and "North of Boston." I really liked the poems in A Boy's Will. The poems are poignant in their simplicity and he's adventurous with the rhyme scheme in a way I learned from. I particularly liked the poem "The Tuft of Flowers" about the narrator who feels like he's working together in a field with the man who mowed the field before him, even though he's never met him. I enjoyed "North of Boston" less. Most of the pieces i...

2019 book 9: I didn’t read this exact edition of A Boy’s Will and North of Boston, but I did read both collections. As much as I wanted to enjoy this, it wasn’t really my cup of tea. I found it very difficult to get through. The content wasn’t very relatable to me and I found myself going back and rereading stuff a lot because a) I didn’t understand it or b) my mind wandered off and I got distracted. I probably could’ve looked a lot of these poems up to gain a better understanding of them but I

I’ve read quotes for Robert Frost and loved them so I bought this book but oh my god!! This was painful!! It was so bad!! I couldn’t get through it and I skipped a lot of pages!!

I had to read this for my literature class, and I have to say it was just okay. Nothing special and it had good messages, but like most literature and older poems, just not for me. I'm so glad I only have one boo left in this course, THEN I'LL BE FREE!!!

I started reading this poetry book for Robert Frost after loving his poem "Bereft" which is a favorite poem of mine and although I enjoyed some of the poems at the beginning of this book and I may get back to them later; I discovered later on that the second part of this book which takes most of the pages consist of short stories rather than poems and I tried my best to go through the first one, but I found myself struggling acutely to fathom it or even to relish it which was awful, so I decided...

Fairly new to poetry and I appreciated these collections, as a first foray into Robert Frost’s works. I feel I got a nice look at the fundamental type of poetry in A Boy’s Will, and then the narrative style short-stories for a step up. The narrative style is not really my thing, but I enjoyed some of the quirks that come along with his classic-American-life imagery. My favourites were: October, Good Hours, and The Mountain

Truly, a skilled poet. Remarkable how well he does dialogue story-telling in poetic form. Makes one wonder why some prose authors are so verbose.

I've taught half a dozen of these poems for forty years, many from memory, first, The Pasture. My Crocket Ridge, Maine, grandparents really had a pasture spring, the cow Polly, and yearly calf--whom Polly defended from the dog Jerome by lifting my brother, in front of the dog, over the stone wall. The spring had great water, down a couple feet, and of course a frog living there. The Tuft of Flowers (the mower spared) I have growing in my back yard, in fact a dozen of them: orange Butterfly Weed,...

I really enjoyed the poetry part, but I couldn’t read the short stories I even skipped most of them 🌚

I take great comfort in Frost's having published his first book at 40.

Although this style of poetry is not my favourite, Frost demonstrates a traditional pastorale expression of the lay of the land. I felt nostalgic to the times where I got to read his work in middle school and high school. I found a couple poems that I’ll return to.

While not my favorite collection of Robert Frost's work, I did find it intensely enjoyable to go through and look at his earliest published work in isolation. I preferred A Boy's Will over North of Boston, which shouldn't surprise anyone. Given my druthers, I always gravitate to lyrical poetry over narrative and blank verse. Favorite poems include the piquant melancholy of "My November Guest" and the subtle, sweet "Stars." I would say both "Wind and Window Flower"and "Rose Pogonias" did a great