Evocative poetry that reminds me of home, longing for solitude, running away from the chaotic masses, majestic nature, suicidal thoughts, aching for a place where you belong, an inward struggle. My favourite poems of the collection are: Going for Water, Reluctance, Storm Fear and Into My Own

3.5 out of five stars. i rounded the star rating up solely because of ‘my november guest’. i have that poem memorized by heart.

This was surprisingly good. Considering that Frost was using rhyme and meter that were more... appropriate to - or at least more popular in - the century prior to his writing here. But unashamed -and unabashed - he finds themes that are new; images, scenery, tales to tell. And at times obfustication on a fine scale. Frost's later voice is heard at times, but these songs of youth have their own merit. Recommended to all who love the Romantics

Favourites:• Into My Own• My November Guest• Flower Gathering• The Trial by Existence• Now Close the Windows• in Hardwood Groves

Frost’s early cycle of poems is romantic in both verse and theme - the development of a mind.

This is just filled with some of the most astounding nature imagery I've read in poetry, but there are just a few too many duds. Poems like "The Vantage Point" and "Storm Fears" are wonderful in language and theme, relating passionate natural scenery to modern life. But the longer poems ("The Trial by Existence" for one) are horribly over philosophical and just oddly written. It's a collection that is worth reading, but it might be good to pick and choose which ones to really analyze deeply.3.50...

No Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood, but I liked:Rose PogoniasAsking for RosesThe Tuft of FlowersOctober

After spending over a year with more modernist poets, reading Frost was a nice return to more structured poetry - metered and rhyming. This volume is probably best known for "A Tuft of Flowers" and its beautiful depiction of human camaraderie both near and far, but I also appreciated it for some of the less known poems - the warning to introverts in "Revelation," the hopes for a fall day in "October," the change of the seasons in "Reluctance," and the impending doom of a coming storm in "Storm F...

I've decided to go back to the beginning of Robert Frost's poetry and read it all. I've only ever done that with one other poet (not naming names), and it was a wonderful experience; it feels like a relationship with someone who was writing to share themselves with only you.A Boy's Will is the beginning of my journey with Frost. I've loved the poems I've read in the past, and I've read more than a few (more than are found in the usual anthologies), but this is something different, reading everyt...

This short collection of Robert Frost was his first published book. Typical of Frost's style, the poetry in it are plain-worded, rhythmical and well-orgnized. Reading through the three sections is like going through the three stages of life: from a careless, ambitious boy,to a young man saturated with love, then subtlly slide into the last stage of life, hanging on the little time left for him on earth.The lines, in addition to the well-sorted structure, are surreal. They lead me to a state of v...

I listened to Robert Bethune narrate the Audible version, but also referred to my Frost collection to review specific poems and lines. Beautifully done, with a keen sense of timing and relationship to the pastoral setting in Frost's work, and also the themes of recurring seasons, death, and rebirth. Those themes were the elements that I picked up on over and over again while listening. My family had the opportunity to visit the Robert Frost Farm two summers ago, and it was easy to visualize the

written about the same time as Wind in the Willows, this also includes a reference to the god Pan

The onset of unseasonably spring-like weather provided an ideal ambiance for reading Robert Frost's A Boy's Will, a book of poetry that - in spite of being Frost's first published collection and feeling a bit amateur given the excellence of his later works - is still brimming with his passion for nature.After a few reads, it seems to me the book follows the seasons, beginning and ending in the fall. The poet has an intimate relationship with his natural surroundings - the trees and the woods and...

We make ourselves a place apartBehind the light words that tease and flout

It is often unfair to judge a poet by his first book, and this is certainly true of Robert Frost's A Boy's Will (1913). The title, taken from a once-familiar refrain of Longfellow's (“A boy's will is the wind's will/ And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts"), suggests that Frost was conscious of the fact that this little collection—although first published in England when he was thirty-nine—contained more than a few works of a youthful, inexperienced writer. Indeed, two of the more ove...

My Sorrow, when she's here with me, Thinks these dark days of autumn rainAre beautiful as days can be;She loves the bare, the withered tree; She walks the sodden pasture lane. first lines of My November GuestFrost, ca. 1910This was Robert Frost's first published collection. In 1913 he and his family were living in the U.K., where the slim volume was first published.Frost was almost forty years old in 1913. I found it curious that a middle-aged man would give this title to his first collect

This was Frost's first published book of poetry. Reading it is both humbling (because even at the beginning of his career, you can see his special genius at work) and inspiring (because you get to witness how even a poet of incredible talent wrote some rather ho-hum, mediocre verse to go along with the more impressive stuff). Four stars for the collection overall, although to do any sort of justice to it, I would really have to go poem by poem... 3 stars, 5 stars, 5 stars, 4 stars, 2 stars (ouch...

I've embarked on a start-to-finish reading of Frost's poetry, volume by volume. A Boy's Will was his first book and, like many (most?) first books, it's a mixed bag. There are many glimpses of Frost's mature concerns: the call and response between humanity and the natural world, the tension between his sense of spiritual meaning and his equally power sense that humanity's more or less on its existential own. Way too much archaic, slightly stilted language--he'll get over that very quickly, but I...

Frost's first collection, published when he was 39. There are hints of the Frost who would be an icon, (a heavy reliance on nature, simplicity and common folk doing common things), but the writing is still a bit amateur and relies on romantic tropes such as fairies, elves, thees and thys. A good study on where a great poet can come from. And no one breaks out fully formed.

Early Frost---with the weakness of late 19th Century "poetic diction," There are glimmers of what great poetry that is to come. If you are studying his development, this is a good collection to see where Frost began, Otherwise, move to later collections for the good stuff.