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    A Masque of Reason
    A Masque of Reason
    A Masque of Reason
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    A Masque of Reason

    By Robert Frost

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    A Masque of Reason purports to be the chapter 43 of the book of Job, which only has 42 chapters. Thus, Frost has written a concluding chapter in the form of this piece. Robert Frost, like John Milton in Paradise Lost, wants to justify God's ways to man.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherReading Essentials
    Release dateNov 23, 2018
    ISBN9781773233321
    A Masque of Reason
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    Robert Frost

    Robert Frost (1874-1963) was an American poet. Born in San Francisco, Frost moved with his family to Lawrence, Massachusetts following the death of his father, a teacher and editor. There, he attended Lawrence High School and went on to study for a brief time at Dartmouth College before returning home to work as a teacher, factory worker, and newspaper delivery person. Certain of his calling as a poet, Frost sold his first poem in 1894, embarking on a career that would earn him acclaim and honor unlike any American poet before or since. Before his paternal grandfather’s death, he purchased a farm in Derry, New Hampshire for Robert and his wife Elinor. For the next decade, Frost worked on the farm while writing poetry in the mornings before returning to teaching once more. In 1912, having moved to England, Frost published A Boy’s Will, his first book of poems. Through the next several years, he wrote and published poetry while befriending such writers as Edward Thomas and Ezra Pound. In 1915, after publishing North of Boston (1914) in London, Frost returned to the United States to settle on another farm in Franconia, New Hampshire, where he continued writing and teaching and began lecturing. Over the next several decades, Frost published numerous collections of poems, including New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (1924) and Collected Poems (1931), winning a total of four Pulitzer Prizes and establishing his reputation as the foremost American poet of his generation.

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      A Masque of Reason - Robert Frost

      A Masque of Reason

      by Robert Frost

      First published in 1945

      This edition published by Reading Essentials

      Victoria, BC Canada with branch offices in the Czech Republic and Germany

      For.ullstein@gmail.com

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, except in the case of excerpts by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.

      A Masque of Reason 

       by 

       Robert Frost

      A fair oasis in the purest desert.

      A man sits leaning back against a palm.

      His wife lies by him looking at the sky.

      Man

      You’re not asleep?

      Wife

      You’re not asleep?No, I can hear you. Why?

      Man

      I said the incense tree’s on fire again.

      Wife

      You mean the Burning Bush?

      Man

      You mean the Burning Bush?The Christmas Tree.

      Wife

      I shouldn’t be surprised.

      Man

      I shouldn’t be surprised.The strangest light!

      Wife

      There’s a strange light on everything today.

      Man

      The myrrh tree gives it. Smell the rosin burning?

      The ornaments the Greek artificers

      Made for the Emperor Alexius,

      The Star of Bethlehem, the pomegranates,

      The birds, seem all on fire with Paradise.

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