Robert Frost died on this date in 1963/
… Our attentions, in “An Old Man’s Winter Night,” are directed away from the befuddled old man and toward the shape Frost gives to the poem that describes him: a graceful, perfectly managed stretch of blank verse. | The Era of Casual Fridays.
Tonight -- in my evening class -- the students discuss "The Road Not Taken." I will be urging them to detect the paradox and inconsistency in the poem. Too many readers see simply the roads as choices but read no deeper.
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