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| Day 29 - Robert Frost  | Despite the stereotype of Robert Frost as a folksy farmer-philosopher, the old-fashioned grey eminence of 20th century American poetry, he was a modernist. At least some of his poems did, as Robert Pinsky said in Slate, "radically challenge and reimagine old conceptions of memory, culture, and ways of beholding nature." | | "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
This is one of Frost’s famously brief lyrics—only eight lines of three beats each (iambic trimeter), four little rhyming couplets containing the whole cycle of life, an entire philosophy.
| Reading Notes on "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
Only eight lines... double entendre... from naturalist to philosopher...
| For further reading: Profile of Robert Frost
His early years in San Francisco, youth in Massachusetts, first publication and marriage, farming, expatriating, finding success in England, the most celebrated poet in America...
| Library: Poems by Robert Frost
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