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Overview
“The Road Not Taken” is a meditation on fate and free will that follows a traveler in an autumn landscape, unsure of which path to take, but certain he cannot stand still. Often summarized using only its final two lines—“I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference”—Frost’s poem refuses such neat categorization. Far from simple praise of independence, “The Road Not Taken” examines the anxiety of choice, the psychic response to the uncertainty that precedes even the simplest decision. In “Birches,” Frost recalls his childhood fondness for climbing trees, raising himself from the ground “To the top branches,” only to fling himself “outward, feet first” back to earth. Against the backdrop of adulthood, in which “life is too much like a pathless wood,” the poet recalls the simplicity and wonder of being a child in nature, no more and no less than “a swinger of birches.”.
This edition of Robert Frost’s Mountain Interval is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781513270913 |
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Publisher: | Mint Editions |
Publication date: | 02/01/2021 |
Series: | Mint Editions (Poetry and Verse) |
Pages: | 64 |
Sales rank: | 944,131 |
Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.16(d) |
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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