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Benny Bunter

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jenks said:
Anyway. Back to Frost. Found this from Paris Review that I found interesting about how Frost is more complex than he’s often given credit for https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/03/17/is-robert-frost-even-a-good-poet/
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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

That if you think you have the answer, you don’t have it?

PLUNKETT

You don’t quite understand the problem."
 
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"Frost’s simplicity has much more in common with Horace’s phrase “the art that hides art” than with the simplicity of somebody repeating old folk sayings
 
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there’s a conflict within him between the life of the mind and a kind of embodied, distributed knowledge that he did not think correlated well with higher education, nor, really, with any of the standard American systems for conferring sophistication.
 
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Frost had general misgivings about the institutionalization of anything, whether that was an act of imagination that finds its form in the institution of verse, or even a bond of love that finds its form in the institution of marriage
 
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Frost sought Pound out when he arrived in London on the 1910s - it wasn’t a great success
“when Frost and Pound met, Pound looked at one of Frost’s poems, made a few corrections and said, “Not bad. Not much fat on that one.” Frost reportedly protested, “But you’ve messed up the rhyme! You wrecked the whole formal structure of the poem!”
 
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jenks said:
Frost sought Pound out when he arrived in London on the 1910s - it wasn’t a great success
“when Frost and Pound met, Pound looked at one of Frost’s poems, made a few corrections and said, “Not bad. Not much fat on that one.” Frost reportedly protested, “But you’ve messed up the rhyme! You wrecked the whole formal structure of the poem!”
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The Frost Art of Poetry interview has a lot of good tidbits on their weird relationship
 
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Seems like it'd be worth trying to get your hands on some of this if you go to Barcelona



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