Frost and Dickinson are my favorite American poets. Unfortunately for Frost, his poems have been regularly and prematurely assigned in American schools and too frequently anthologized for many to dismiss him as a"famous" poet with rhymes that can appeal to adolescents. Nothing further from the truth unless he is seriously misread. American youth have a tremendous bias regarding Frost’s poems. They’ve always been told that Frost is a poet of rural life, a kind of pastoralist. A model American.

I enjoyed the themes rather than the actual poetry. Frost seems to write poems made to be dissected in English classes. Oftentimes they are set up more as short stories, heavy on the dialogue, than poems. In fact, not that I'm a poetry expert, I could not detect what exactly made some of these poems verse rather than just spaced-out prose. I had a difficult time understanding a lot of these poems, but there were some that were really lovely. I'd be interested in rereading this collection in the

Poetry is not really my thing but I much more prefer Poe over this very nature based stuff. Fire & Ice is still my favorite of Frost's though.

Something about Frost’s poems is comfortable, like coming home. I’m glad to own this little collection that holds some of my favorite works of his.The melancholy of having to count soulsWhere they grow fewer and fewer every yearIs extreme where they shrink to none at all.It must be I want life to go on living.- from The Census-TakerI always find myself wanting to pore over his poems, to dissect them to find just how much they mean to me and what I take away from them. I spent some days in class

It is not without excellent reason that Robert Frost is considered one of the greatest American poets of the century. What impresses me most about his poems is the usage of simple and colloquial words to portray ordinary, everyday incidents that have a deeper, denser meaning hidden within. Clear and conversational lines conceal subtle philosophies on life and complex social issues at their core. Also, I find myself completely drawn to the stunning picture he paints with his expressive poems on n...

Love has earth to which she clings With hills and circling arms about— Wall within wall to shut fear out. But Thought has need of no such things, For Thought has a pair of dauntless wings. On snow and sand and turf, I see Where Love has left a printed trace With straining in the world’s embrace. And such is Love and glad to be. But Thought has shaken his ankles free. Thought cleaves the interstellar gloom And sits in Sirius’ disc all night, Till day makes him retrace his flight, With smell of bu...

Highly enjoyable. Have to admit more a fan of the shorter poems than long, but there are exceptions. Beautiful

we make ourselves a place apart / behind light words that tease and flout / but oh, the agitated heart / till someone find us really out // 'Revelation'

The Selected Poems of Robert Frost, Robert FrostRobert Frost, the quintessential poet of New England, was born in San Francisco in 1874. He was educated at Dartmouth College and Harvard University. Although he managed to support himself working solely as a poet for most of his life and holding various posts with a number of universities, as a young man he was employed as a bobbin boy in a mill, a cobbler, a schoolteacher, and a farmer. Frost, whose poetry focuses on natural images of New England...

A couple months ago I read a collection of E.E. Cummings poems and I mentioned how my Grammy had seemed surprised by my interest in the poet. She said, she just thought Robert Frost would be more my style (her favorite). And, now we're here.This collection is small and compact and I don't know how many poems it's missing from being a complete collection, but I can tell you with almost upmost certainty I will not be exploring a full collection. It feels wrong to give this book 1 star, I mean it's...

Absolutely beautiful edition of Robert Frost's work. The illustrations aren't exactly what I would call beautiful but they do add a bit of ambience to the wonderful poetry printed within this book. Beautiful hardback edition.This is a great addition to anyone's library!

Since I was a little girl, Frost could do no wrong. He still can't. The cadence of his lines, the lucidity of his poetry, always transports me. I'm a little upset that my edition isn't listed here on GR though. Mine has quite a few more poems from his earlier and later life.

Ah, Robert Frost: the man who convinced me that I hated poetry. Years ago, I was assigned to read some of his poetry for school and, let's just say, I read them as if I was taking cough-syrup. (Note: Why, yes! I hate cough-syrup. I'll never forget the fateful night where I spit a mouthful of it across the bathroom. Good times...) Anyhow, so I didn't enjoy his poems because I was reading them with the wrong attitude &c. If Carl Sandburg hadn't come along later and shown me what a wonderful thing

I love this book. And I love the way in which Frost writes poetry. The success of the poems resides in their ability to speak to the reader; they have a certain sense of universal quality as they evoke profound mental states. He does this through using objects, often natural ones, to describe a certain human emotion or feeling. A tree in the wind embodies indecision and the inability to move on. A road split in two represents a part of the human experience that I can now only think of in the ter...

Free download available at Project GutenbergI made the proofing of this book for Free Literature and it will be published by Project Gutenberg.CONTENTSITHE PASTURETHE COW IN APPLE-TIMETHE RUNAWAYIIAN OLD MAN'S WINTER NIGHTHOME BURIALTHE DEATH OF THE HIRED MANA SERVANT TO SERVANTSTHE SELF-SEEKERTHE HILL WIFE"OUT, OUT. . ."IIIPUTTING IN THE SEEDGOING FOR WATERMOWINGIVAFTER APPLE-PICKINGBIRCHESTHE GUM-GATHERERTHE MOUNTAINTHE TUFT OF FLOWERSMENDING WALLAN ENCOUNTERTHE WOOD-PILEVSNOWIN THE HOME STRET...

This is a book I will read again and again. Somewhere along the way (probably that semester of poetry at university) I learned that the sophisticated individual gains great pleasure looking down the nose at the simple ramblings of Mr Frost. Well, this peasant disagrees.

I don't really understand most types of poetry, hence the three star rating. However, there were a few poems that Robert Frost wrote that I actually enjoyed a bit because they made me think of things I remember from my childhood. Good memories filled with nostalgia, that I hadn't thought of in a while. So, for a poetry book, I supposed that this is really good in my opinion. However, there were a few poems that I was concerned about. One of them was called "Fear" or something like that, and it c...

Drama: awesome. Form: pleasurable. Theme: Got a little fed up with all that personifying nature/alackadaying that nature can't be personified. Here's the best antidote:It's a strange courageyou give me, ancient star:Shine alone in the sunrisetoward which you lend no part!IShine alone, shine nakedly, shine like bronzethat reflects neither my face nor any inner partof my being, shine like fire, that mirrors nothing.IILend no part to any humanity that suffusesyou in its own light.Be not chimera of

These poems, written by Robert Frost, were fairly fun to read. Poetry is not a genre I would ordinarily go to when I want something to read, but it was a nice change of pace. The book was organized to my liking, the literature was satisfactory, but most of it ended up going over my head. There was no real personal connection for me, but that's what usually happens in high school book reports. Overall, the poems were nice and decorated enough to be Frost's work, but after reading a whole assortme...