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    The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
    The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
    The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
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    The Road Not Taken and Other Poems

    By Robert Frost

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    "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.
    "    These deceptively simple lines from the title poem of this collection suggest Robert Frost at his most representative: the language is simple, clear and colloquial, yet dense with meaning and wider significance. Drawing upon everyday incidents, common situations and rural imagery, Frost fashioned poetry of great lyrical beauty and potent symbolism. Now a selection of the best of his early works is available in this volume, originally published in 1916 under the title Mountain Interval. Included are many moving and expressive poems: "An Old Man's Winter Night," "In the Home Stretch," "Meeting and Passing," "Putting In the Seed," "A Time to Talk," "The Hill Wife," "The Exposed Nest," "The Sound of Trees" and more. All are reprinted here complete and unabridged. Includes "The Road Not Taken."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateMar 1, 2012
    ISBN9780486111292
    The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
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    Robert Frost

    Robert Frost (1874–1963) was a poet who was much admired for his depictions of rural life in New England, command of American colloquial speech, and realistic verse portraying ordinary people in everyday situations.

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    • 2/5
      I'm utterly indifferent to his subject matter, and his poems evoke no genuine feeling from me.
    • 4/5
      Frost is one of the few great poets who can write narrative verse, including conversation, and have it work both as story and as verse. This collection is held together by a theme of the relationship between humans, each other, and the natural world. There is cruelty, often unintentional or unknowing. But there is beauty in the intersection and the conflicts that result.

      "The Road Not Taken" leaves its ambiguous ending hanging there: is it celebration, regret, or is it a facile narrator missing his own point? And in "Snow" the complexities of human feelings swirl with the storm that challenges Meserve to heroism or is it foolishness, or is it love for his wife?

      Frost has often been underestimated, more by his fans than by some post-modernists who seem to loathe his writing. This collection bears rereading and savoring for its depths.
    • 4/5
      Favorites in this collection include "The Road Not Taken," "A Patch of Old Snow," and "Birches."
    • 2/5
      I'm sorry, but I just don't like Robert Frost that much. Aside from The Road Not Taken and Mending Wall, I don't care for his poetry.

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    The Road Not Taken and Other Poems - Robert Frost

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    DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS

    EDITOR: STANLEY APPELBAUM

    This Dover edition, first published in 1993, contains the unabridged text of Mountain Interval, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1916. A few corrections have been made tacitly in the text, and a Note and alphabetical lists of titles and first lines have been added.

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Frost, Robert, 1874–1963.

    [Mountain interval]

    The road not taken and other poems / Robert Frost.

    p. cm.—(Dover thrift editions)

    Originally published: Mountain interval. New York : H. Holt and Co., 1916.

    Incudes index.

    ISBN-13: 978-0-486-27550-5 (pbk.)

    9780486111292

    I. Title. II. Series.

    PS3511.R94M6 1993

    811’.52—dc20

    92-31553

    CIP

    Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation

    27550717

    www.doverpublications.com

    Note

    Mountain Interval, reprinted here in the unabridged text of its original 1916 issue (but with a changed title and a few corrections), was the third volume of poetry by the eminent American writer Robert Frost (1874—1963). Its contents include both rhymed lyrics and blank-verse dialogues (Frost’s first volume, A Boy’s Will, 1913, had contained only the former; his second book, North of Boston, 1914, only the latter, except for the opening and closing poems). The subject matter in the third book remained the same: the joys and trials of a rural existence, close to nature in its beneficent and savage moods.

    In later editions of Mountain Interval, Frost moved The Exposed Nest to an earlier position in the volume and added the poems Locked Out and The Last Word of a Bluebird. The present edition includes the original dedication and retains the original typographic emphasis on major poems in the table of contents.

    TO YOU

    WHO LEAST NEED REMINDING

    that before this interval of the South Branch under black mountains, there was another interval, the Upper at Plymouth, where we walked in spring beyond the covered bridge; but that the first interval of all was the old farm, our brook interval, so called by the man we had it from in sale.

    Table of Contents

    Title Page

    Copyright Page

    Note

    Dedication

    The Road Not Taken

    Christmas Trees

    An Old Man’s Winter Night

    A Patch of Old Snow

    In the Home Stretch

    The Telephone

    Meeting and Passing

    Hyla Brook

    The Oven Bird

    Bond and Free

    Birches

    Pea Brush

    Putting In the Seed

    A Time to Talk

    The Cow in Apple Time

    An Encounter

    Range-Finding

    The Hill Wife

    The Bonfire

    A Girl’s Garden

    The Exposed Nest

    Out, Out—

    Brown’s Descent or The Willy-Nilly Slide

    The Gum-Gatherer

    The Line-Gang

    The Vanishing Red

    Snow

    The Sound of the Trees

    Alphabetical List of Titles

    Alphabetical List of First Lines

    DOVER ◆ THRIFT ◆ EDITIONS

    The Road Not Taken

    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

    And sorry I could not travel both

    And be one traveler, long I stood

    And looked down one as far as I could

    To where it bent in the undergrowth;

    Then took the

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