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3 days ago · Before he died, he became a household name, quoted by schoolchildren, whose work was used in advertising and at a Presidential inauguration. England was in a period of huge poetic invention. Dozens of writers were experimenting with ways of writing verse that got beyond the saccharine, twisted, archaic, rococo, stuffy excesses of late Victorian ...
5 days ago · Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. He died on January 29, 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts. He died at the age of 88.
3 days ago · At the end of October 1963, President Kennedy flew to Amherst College in Massachusetts to take part in a ceremony in honor of the poet Robert Frost who had died in January of that year. In deciding what he might say, the President decided upon Frost’s inaugural theme of poetry and power and the significance of Robert Frost and of poetry for the United States and for the world. In the ...
3 days ago · “He died in Boston, just weeks after giving his final ‘talk’ at the Ford Hall Forum. 2024 is the 150th anniversary of his birth, and April is ‘Poetry Month.’
5 days ago · He stood with barrels round him -- at a loss. And having scared the cellar under him In clomping there, he scared it once again In clomping off; -- and scared the outer night , Which has its sounds, familiar, like the roar Of trees and crack of branches, common things, But nothing so like beating on a box.
3 days ago · Carpe Diem. Age saw two quiet children. Go loving by at twilight, He knew not whether homeward, Or outward from the village, Or (chimes were ringing) churchward, He waited, (they were strangers) Till they were out of hearing. To bid them both be happy.
3 days ago · But at spring mending- time we find them there. I let my neighbour know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line. And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls.
