I have recently completed a four-week online Future Learn course on the poetry of Robert Frost. Robert Frost: The American Voice This course is offered by Ralston College. I came across it because I subscribe to Ralston College’s newsletter. I… Continue reading →| Jenny Connected
Just had to share this moment with you. On this day in 1915, Robert Frost’s iconic poem “The Road Not Taken” was first published in The Atlantic Monthly. More than a century later, its opening lines still echo in our hearts: “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both…” It’sContinue reading "A Milestone in Poetry August 1, 1915"| Rebecca's Reading Room
This week’s offer is two poems that are strikingly similar in concept, both using the unrest of birds as a trope for marital disharmony, but widely different in style, Ransom’s ornate patrician gravity contrasting with Frost’s plain-spoken simplicity. I like … Continue reading →| David Sutton
It is easy to take this little poem of Robert Frost’s, justly celebrated for its laconic deftness, as no more than a pithy generalised reflection on human nature and overlook the fact that it is al…| David Sutton
Robert Frost? George William Curtis? Arthur Deerin Call? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Design or chance? Lâle reconsiders the Frost poem "Design" after a morning find.| A Writing Life: Lâle Davidson
My writing has been disrupted these past few months. I like to be very regular – one essay on religion, one on video games, alternating weeks. I’ve been doing that since 2022. But this …| Death is a Whale