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Are you ready? Come on along and read some homespun poetry as well as a jot and tittle regarding distinguished poets and their works. Gael offers a positive balance of her own nostalgia notes and poetic meanderings with those of others. [Editor's note: Gael no longer contributes to Silver Planet, but we have made her archived blog entries available as a service to our readers.]
Poet Quiz
Many years ago, one of my favorite American poets was a resident of the small town I grew up in, Methuen, Massachusetts. He taught in the school system there before I was born. He also studied at Dartmouth and Harvard but left before achieving a degree.
He moved to Derry, New Hampshire, where he worked as a farmer, and as a teacher at Pinkerton Academy. In the 1920s, he bought and worked a farm in South Shaftsbury, Vermont. He wrote of the fields and farms in his surroundings and penned realistic poems about rural life in New England. He was both humorous and sad. His free verse is very easy to read and enjoy.
He was awarded four Pulitzer Prizes and later in life was made poetry consultant for the Library of Congress. He traveled extensively to lecture and lived in England for a time. He was widely considered the poet laureate of the United States of America.
Have you guessed whom I am speaking about? Of course you have—Robert Frost.
I particularly love this short, pithy offering:
Robert Frost (1874–1963)
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.
Do you have a favorite Robert Frost poem? Please make a comment and share your thoughts.
By Gael Stuart
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