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  2. The Need of Being Versed in Country Things - Wikipedia

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    However, by prefacing the phrase with “one would have to” (be versed in country things), Frost keeps his narrator from sounding like a chastising know-it-all. Frost allows for the “strong impulse (and a traditional poetic one all the way back through pastoral poetry) to believe that the birds are responsively grieving at the spectacle of ...

  3. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Wikipedia

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    The poem begins with a moment of quiet introspection, which is reflected in the soft sounds of w's and th's, as well as double ll's. In the second stanza, harder soundslike k and qu — begin to break the whisper. As the narrator's thought is disrupted by the horse in the third stanza, a hard g is used. [5]

  4. List of poems by Robert Frost - Wikipedia

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    Handwritten version of 'Happiness Makes Up in Height For What It Lacks in Length' by Robert Frost. Found inscribed in a Robert Frost book in the Special Collections Library at Duke University. Date of signature in the book predates formal release in publication of the poem. The Gift Outright; The Most of It; Come In; All Revelation [2] A ...

  5. A Boy's Will - Wikipedia

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    As it was being published, Frost met with fellow writer Ezra Pound, who insisted they immediately go to Nutt to see a copy of the book in print. Pound offered to write a review that day and soon introduced Frost to poet William Butler Yeats. [5]: 127–8 Yeats said he considered A Boy's Will "the best poetry written in America in a long time."

  6. Mountain Interval - Wikipedia

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    The book was republished in 1920, and after making several alterations in the sequencing of the collection, Frost released a new edition in 1924. [citation needed] Five lyrics of the earlier collection were compiled next under the title "The Hill Wife". In this volume only three poems are written in dramatic monologue.

  7. The Road Not Taken - Wikipedia

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    "The Road Not Taken" is a narrative poem by Robert Frost, first published in the August 1915 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, [1] and later published as the first poem in the 1916 poetry collection, Mountain Interval. Its central theme is the divergence of paths, both literally and figuratively, although its interpretation is noted for being ...

  8. Why sudden loud booms sometimes occur when it's very ... - AOL

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    During extreme cold events, you may hear a loud boom and feel like you have experienced an earthquake. However, this event was more likely a cryoseism, also known as an ice quake or a frost quake ...

  9. Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem) - Wikipedia

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    "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is a short poem written by Robert Frost in 1923 and published in The Yale Review in October of that year. It was later published in the collection New Hampshire (1923), [1] which earned Frost the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The poem lapsed into public domain in 2019. [2]