Frost’s response to the approach of modern schools that sang the praises of free verse is palpable in this chronological selection of his best known poems.Frost sustains that form is a requirement for the poet and to preserve its aesthetics is his main duty.Following this train of thought, there is nothing impulsive in Frost’s poems. The mundane aspects of daily life lose their ordinariness when they are delivered in encompassed rhymed and rigorously structured verse. The topics that concern Fro...

I read this book in 2 tries. The first time I didn't get past the first 20 pages or so. Somehow the idyllic landscapes and contemplative journeys seemed boring, and for some reason, I didn't get a lot of things. Don't know whether that was because of the language barrier, or because it was poetry... However, I tried again, and very glad I did. Had to push myself a little to get through the beginning, but then I just got sucked into Frost's world. Man! He has a way of telling an entire story in a...

"I’d like to get away from earth awhileAnd then come back to it and begin over."These past few weeks I've crawled into bed with a head full of thoughts and worries. And the only logic solution seemed to be reading a bit of poetry before going to sleep. A well-written verse always calms the soul. For this project, I chose Robert Frost. Of course I did. His poetry is well-known for its calm rhytm and simplistic beauty. I've never been able to walk by a birch tree without recalling the first few li...

A dense collection, this is one I'd recommend to people who are already into poetry. This is not for someone who is trying to get into poetry, a comment I would also say of Emily Dickinson. Richly worded, it is also not easy on the reader and demands a level of attention that might turn people off. I don't share this as a bash against the collection or Frost, but just so that people can have a warning before diving in. As I continue to read more and more poetry, I learn what I like, what I enjoy...

It's a little unconventional, but my favorite Frost poem has to be wind and window flower. When I think of the man, I recite:She a window flower,And he a winter breeze.Even though many other poems are immensely popular, hell, I have fire and ice memorize ten million times better than wind and window flower, but when I read wind and window flower, there is such a helpless sad feeling, like grasping love when you can before it's gone.Morning found the breezeA hundred miles awayThere is just such a...

This wonderful little collection of Robert Frost's poetry includes mostly poems from his first three books: A BOY'S WILL, NORTH OF BOSTON and MOUNTAIN INTERVAL.Most poems apparently recount a rural incident or focus on the natural world. They are deceptively simple, however. Frost uses evasion and metaphors in such ways that meaning does not emerge clearly upon a first (or second) reading. He dwells on points of miscommunication, in the isolation of every act of speech and in the gaps that canno...

Poetry is so subjective that I don't know how much utility there is for me to leave a review. I love Robert Frost - always have. I tend to be drawn to poetry about nature and our relationship with it. Hailing from Nova Scotia, the landscape of Frost is one that is familiar, and reading Frost makes me think of home. As for the anthology, I can't say enough about Everyman's Library Pocket poets. Small but robust collections by the great poets of history, these little collections are great to keep

'Was there even a cause too lost,Ever a cause that was lost too long,Or that showed with the lapse of time to vainFor the generous tears of youth and song?'frost, frost, frost.nothing more profound than the simplicity of his words.how do you manage to band together such emotional turmoil from just stringing together 26 alphabets and barely any punctuation?

As usual with poets, I’d like to dedicate most of this review to the life of the poet since that often explains motives and style.Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26th in 1874 in San Francisco. His father was first a teacher and later an editor for the "San Francisco Evening Bulletin". In 1885, when Frost was 11, his father died of tuberculosis, leaving the family with just eight dollars (no idea how since even then editors were usually well paid) so he and his mother moved to Massachusetts to...

3 1/2. I think Frost was a frustrated dramatist. All the short poems are amazing, and some of the (really) long ones too. Next time I return to him I’ll choose a slimmer, “selected” volume. For plays I’ll stick with Chekhov.

I first studied Robert Frost in one of my poetry classes during a semester in college! I immediately fell in love with his work, and I knew I needed to read a whole collection after the class ended! Well, here I am!!!! I just finished this beautiful collection, and I truly can't get over how incredibly talented Frost is! The way he describes a scene and creates such deep metaphors is brilliant!! There are so many poems of his that I just want to drape over the world like a cozy blanket! 💚His wis...

Lionel Trilling said in his introduction of Anna Karennina (1951) "To comprehend unconditioned spirit is not so very hard, but there is no knowledge rarer than the understanding of spirit as it exists in the inescapable conditions which the actual and the trivial make for it". Trilling might have been talking about Frost, because in his poetry, the actual and trivial fully embodies a spirit both universal and particular.Frost is often the opposite of the expansive, pantheistic and self-referenti...

If your only experience of Frost is a snowy evening, this is an eye opener. He wanders from format to format, but settles in best with something akin to epic poetry but the subject matter isn't heroes of old, but the working rural folk of New England. He writes complex pictures of quirky folk who sometimes are inexplicable to each other, yet appreciate their own dependance on and home in nature. The pondering and summing up of humanity are in ways alike to and opposite of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Un...

Honestly there is not much that I might add by way of comment after flipping through his showy collection of poems. Polysyndetonic syntax however across many of his pieces, it is Frost's life work, perhaps made this collection that more appealing. It's tremendously mirthful a collection despite the poet's reputation for discord.

Wonderful. If you read Frost in high school and weren't impressed, try again. His poems' stark simplicity and unsentimental tone really hit home with me.

My dad liked Robert Frost, and after reading this collection, I can see why. Frost seems to love the simplicity of living on a northeastern farm. His poems celebrate nature and country living, but they each seem to say something a little bit more universal than the specific subject of the individual poem, whether that is a grinding stone, a haystack, or a forest path. I can see myself coming back to the poems one day.

A great collection of Robert Frost poems. I especially enjoyed that the author included many of Frost’s longer poems. As always with Frost, the themes are of simple country living and nature. I was only disappointed that “A Peck of Gold” was missing.

4 out of 5 starsDespite the fact that I generally don't enjoy poetry all that much, Frost has long been one of the few poets I'm familiar with that has been exempt from that fact.Honestly, what I enjoy about his work is how plain spoken it is, while still being moody and witty at the same time. Also, he effortlessly uses nature metaphorically in a number of his poems, in order to shed light on themes of death, life and the struggles people have in day to day life. Also, he doesn't use overly rid...

I don't read a lot of poetry, but I do have some favorites, and Frost is one of them. I find that his poems often speak to my heart, and resonate with something inside me, sometimes in ways I don't fully understand until much later. It is only on reflection, for example, that his "Good-by and Keep Cold" seems to me to bring some deeper insight into raising children and the need to allow them space to grow from adversity, and trust that God will bring them through. "Into My Own" reflects what I h...