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He'll be 90 years old next year

Weird these haven't been mentioned, maybe cos they're not as drony, but the sound is the same

This is a decent article comparing frost and wordsworth https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-199347

One thing whitman, melville and frost all have in common is they take the essential part that cruelty has in the world in their stride, they don't agonise over it, though they ask questions, but they accept it as part of life and nature.

"This elusive quality it is, which causes the thought of whiteness, when divorced from more kindly associations, and coupled with any object terrible in itself, to heighten that terror to the furthest bounds."

Made me think of the whiteness of the whale chapter in moby dick too

very similar aren't they?

DESIGN I found a dimpled spider, fat and white, On a white heal-all, holding up a moth Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth-- Assorted characters of death and blight Mixed ready to begin the morning right, Like the ingredients of a witches' broth-- A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth...

Ahhhhh funkystepz were so good.

You're kneeling at that well-curb in the wrong way again, you fucking dickhead.

Not an exact analogy, but you might say Frost was more like Wordsworth than John Clare.

Not a yokel persona and no attempt to use colloquial language, which is what his entire work often gets reduced to. Look at the words he uses - 'Discern' 'rebuke' 'summer heaven godlike' 'and lo'. For Once, Then, Something By Robert Frost Others taunt me with having knelt at well-curbs Always...

@version I'd have to go back to the olson poem again to understand any of that tbh, I can't really remember it apart from the first and last lines.

Melville and Whitman were artless in some ways but not others, I can get what @luka means when he describes them as that. But not Frost.

You could only come to the conclusion that Frost was artless, in any of its various definitions, from the abolutely shallowest of readings - that he used simple language and wrote about farmers and that.

I don't think you can really call him a poseur. He was interested in and highly valued rural life and work, he had experience of owning and working a farm. I wouldn't say he had a yokel persona as such, but he observed it and learned from it.

I wouldn't know, haven't touched it for 3 or 4 years now

Good read. I liked this bit, which is why I mentioned negative capability earlier. "Some people may think they have the answer, but I think that if you have any degree of certainty about it, you don’t really understand the problem. I would say the same about reading Frost’s poetry. INTERVIEWER...

I mean, it's fair enough, reading poems is really hard and I'm not very good at it myself but...