Mountain Interval

by Robert Frost

Overview

Mountain Interval (1916), Robert Frost’s third published poetry collection describes a certain sense of the future as circumscribed by the choices of the past one has made. The collection’s first and most famous poem, “The Road Not Taken,” in which Frost deploys the forked path in the woods as a metaphor for the course of life itself. While the situation evokes the first canto of the Divine Comedy, Frost avoids Dante’s overtly allegorical manner by creating a speaker whose spare vocabulary and vernacular syntax lends the poem a more parable-like narrative force.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783965372658
Publisher:	Otbebookpublishing
Publication date:	05/15/2019
Series:	Classics To Go
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	83
File size:	666 KB

About the Author

Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. Frost was honoured frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He became one of America's rare "public literary figures, almost an artistic institution." He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his poetic works. On July 22, 1961, Frost was named poet laureate of Vermont. (Wikipedia)

Table of Contents

The Road Not Taken 7

Christmas Trees 8

An Old Man’s Winter Night 10

The Exposed Nest 11

A Patch of Old Snow 13

In the Home Stretch 14

The Telephone 22

Meeting and Passing 23

Hyla Brook 24

The Oven Bird 25

Bond and Free 26

Birches 27

Pea Brush 29

Putting in the Seed 30

A Time to Talk 31

The Cow in Apple Time 32

An Encounter 33

Range-Finding 34

The Hill Wife 35

The Bonfire 38

A Girl’s Garden 42

Locked Out 44

The Last Word of a Bluebird 45

“Out, Out—” 46

Brown’s Descent or the Willy-Nilly Slide 48

The Gum-Gatherer 51

The Line-Gang 53

The Vanishing Red 54

Snow 55

The Sound of the Trees 68

Editorial Reviews

Mr. Frost is an honest writer, writing from himself, from his own knowledge and emotion . . . he is quite consciously and definitely putting New England life into verse. --Ezra Pound

The best poetry written in America in a long time.-- William Butler Yeats

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