Conversations with Robert Frost: The Bread Loaf Period

Conversations with Robert Frost: The Bread Loaf Period

by Peter Stanlis
Conversations with Robert Frost: The Bread Loaf Period

Conversations with Robert Frost: The Bread Loaf Period

by Peter Stanlis

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Overview

These core conversations between Peter Stanlis and Robert Frost occurred during 1939-1941. They are written in the much larger context of nearly a quarter century of friendship that ended only with the passing of Frost in 1963. These discussions provide a unique window of opportunity to appreciate the sources of Frost's philosophical visions, as well as his poetic interests. The discussions between Stanlis and Frost were held between six consecutive summers (1939-1944), when Stanlis was a student at the Bread Loaf Graduate School of English. These were augmented by additional exchanges at Bread Loaf in 1961-1962. These conversations provide original insights on important subjects common to both men.Frost insisted that it was impossible to make a complete or final unity out of the conflicts between spirit and matter. Ordinary empirical experience and rational discursive reason and logic could not harmonize basic conflicts. He held that the best method to ameliorate apparent contradictions in dualistic conflicts was through the "play" of metaphorical thinking and feeling. Metaphors included parables, allegories, fables, images, symbols, irony, and the forms and techniques of poetry such as rhyme, rhythm, assonance, dissonance, personifications, and connotations.These are the arsenal from which poets draw their insightful metaphors, but such metaphors are also the common property of every normal person. A poem is "a momentary stay against confusion," a form of revelation for "a clarification of life," but not a final, absolute answer to the mysteries and complexities in man's life on Earth. So too-at their best-are science, religion, philosophy, education, politics, and scholarship as a means of ameliorating human problems.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781138521278
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 10/06/2017
Pages: 136
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Transaction Edition, A Prelude to Bread Loaf: 1937-1939, Robert Frost at Bread Loaf: 1939, Robert Frost at Bread Loaf: 1940, Robert Frost at Bread Loaf: 1941
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