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Selected Poems
Paperback
Series: Mint Editions (Poetry and Verse)
Publisher Price: $9.99
ISBN13: 9781513269559
Publisher: Mint Ed
Published: Jan 12 2021
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Selected Poems (1923) is a collection of poems by American poet Robert Frost. Dedicated to Edward Thomas, a friend of Frost's and an important English poet who died toward the end of the First World War, Selected Poems is a wonderful sampling of poems from Frost's early collections, including A Boy's Will and North of Boston. Known for his plainspoken language and dedication to the images and rhythms of rural New England, Robert Frost is one of America's most iconic poets, a voice to whom generations of readers have turned in search of beauty, music, and life.
Mowing envisions the poet's work through the prism of rural labor. There was never a sound beside the wood but one / And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground. / What was it it whispered? The speaker does not know, but continues his task, hypnotized by its rhythm and simple music. In After Apple-Picking, as fall gives over to winter, the poet remembers in dreams how the Magnified apples appear and disappear, / Stem end and blossom end as he climbs the ladder into the heart of the tree. Both a symbol for life and a metaphor for the poetic act, apple picking leaves the poet overtired / Of the great harvest [he himself] desired, awaiting sleep as he describes its coming on, wondering what, if anything, it will bring. The Road Not Taken, perhaps Frost's most famous poem, is a meditation on fate and free will that follows a traveler in an autumn landscape, unsure of which path to take, but certain he cannot stand still.
This edition of Robert Frost's Selected Poems is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.
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