The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
By Robert Frost
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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."
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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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I'm utterly indifferent to his subject matter, and his poems evoke no genuine feeling from me.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Frost 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. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Favorites in this collection include "The Road Not Taken," "A Patch of Old Snow," and "Birches."
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I'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
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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