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Brodsky, Heaney, and Walcott helped me hear the music of Frost's poetry. They don't analyze all that many poems but the insights they offer open the door to others. For example, I learned about Frost's idea of "Sentence-Sounds" in Brodsky's review of "Home Burial" and his idea of the "Sounds of Sense" in Heaney's discussion of "Desert Places". Then when I read Frost's "To a Thinker", which does not appear in "Homage to Frost", I came across the line "...From sound to sense and back to sound", and of course I recognized a familiar theme. If you like Frost, this book makes a nice companion reader.

If you need to read one critical examination of Robert Frost, buy this & read Joseph Brodsky's fantastic, accessible take on "Home Burial". What a great book this is--three fine poets examining a brilliant poet. But it is Brodsky who best holds to the Frost credo--he speaks clearly and plainly.

Frost reads many of his best. Recorded in 1956 at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the authors own voice inflections give the listener many hours of pondering simple yet complex prose.

A person is walking in the woods. It is a warm afternoon. Thewoods are filled with bright light, and he walks in light steps in thespreading patterns of the branches of the trees. Where the road diverged in two paths, he paused. Which way should I take? After a long pondering, he takes the road less taken, which are grassy, covered with the untrodden leaves. Why?

Sometimes our lives force us to choose one way because we can't take both. It's very difficult to make the decision, as we know that one way is much easier, more secure to pass, and many people choose it; but another is more rough and needs a lot of effort to take. Even we know clearly which way to go to experience our life fully but with some regrets and mistakes. That's why it's very difficult. This poem focuses on the theme of human isolation and fears, human's reaction to the complexities of life. It presents a sober vision of the life but also has the hope, as well as sadness, we all experience.

Robert Frost is perhaps the most popular and beloved of 20th-century American poet. Born in San Francisco, he spent most of his adult life in rural New England. Through the poem, I can meditate and reflect on life as Frost did. He attempted to write poetry while teaching at school or working a farm. This poem was written in one of those days when young Frost was dedicated to the art of poetry and struggling. The road he chose was winding, split in many ways, twisted and sometimes disappeared in the undergrowth. Sometimes he might feel some regrets because of fear and uncertainty in the very middle way on the path. Or he was scared that the road was not paved for him and screamed, " He kept writing, observing the details of living, and could make the poetry of a true, real, natural vision of life.

Everyone needs poems about life sometimes. Poems, which light our lives brightly and give hints and secrets how our lives should be, as Frost once said "begin in delight and end in wisdom." END

I am working on a paper for an M.A. in literature on Frost's poetry, and I found this book in our university library. I was already planning to approach it from a reader response framework, and was delighted to find that Oster had done the same thing. I am finding the book insightful, helpful and extremely readable. I'm not sure if it's good or bad, but the author's love of Frost's work is more than a little obvious throughout. I have been most pleased that she has addressed the very issues I intended to write on, including theories of Stanley Fish and his "interpretive communities" as related to Frost. She points out that Frost's intentional ambiguity lends itself perfectly to this framework.

Frost was quite simply a poetic genius of the first rank, on a par with his only rivals Hardy and Yeats for Premier Poet of the 20th Century.

This book shows how Frost built multi-layered meanings and nuances of allusion into his poems that required sensitive,
crafty,astute readers to read them right. While not wanting to be misread any more than other authors, he enjoyed playing some poetic pranks on unsuspecting,naive readers who don't pay attention to his irony,double-entendre,gentle spoofing,and
tricksterish legerdemain, all in good fun of course. Those readers choosing to read him straightforwardly on a superficial
level will often find they are reading the opposite of what Frost intended. But in most cases, we'll simply never know just exactly what he intended, since he left that to the reader to figure out.

The author does a commendable job of showing us how to be more
'Frost-wise' in our reading of his masterworks. Of his 345 poems in the collected edition, Randall Jarrell said 1/3 are dispensable; 1/3 are eminently readable,even repeatedly, holding many surprises that reward further exploration over the years;
and the rest (115 or so of the anthologized masterpieces) are ones worth dog-earing,memorizing,recitation,meditation,intensive
study and lifelong plumbing to even begin to approach their depths as works of art of the highest calibre in modern times.

Frost's ingestion of the Bible,Shakespeare,Greek/Roman Classics in youth/college were his fount-fillers,providing the raw material and potential to be unleashed with power in his poetry.
First published in 1913 when nearly 40,living in England, his work would continue to crescendo until age 89,garnering an
unprecedented 4 Pulitzers and President Kennedy's Inaugurational reading.

This book is indispensable for mastering the work of the master.
Read in conjunction with Timothy Steele's 'All the Fun's in How
You Say a Thing', and Richard Wilbur's essays and poetry, will enhance the appreciation of Frost's genius and make better readers of us all.

If you're looking to expand your horizons into the world of poetry, this is an excellent place to start. A wonderful collection.

If you're looking for an easy access poetry collection for the YA audience, this is an excellent choice. Nice and short & beautifully written.

I couldn't let April go without digging out this old favorite. This particular edition of Robert Frost's poetry--I mean, this particular one, with illustrations by Thomas W. Nason and in this particular format--is five years old, and you may have already come across it. If you haven't, I can't recommend it highly enough. Designed especially for young readers, the collection includes the most accessible of Frost's poetry, including the "You Come Too" of the title--which, as a phrase, seems one of the most magical and evocative in the language of childhood. Like Frost's work in general, many of the included poems nod knowingly at nature, and Thomas W. Nason's illustrations have a botanist's eye in their design and execution. This is perhaps my favorite book of poetry for older children.

While this book gave me an overview of the basic process of donor insemination (DI), its pitfalls and successes, I found myself wanting...more. More information, more details on exactly how it all works, why, statistics, etc. This book is, in my opinion, more focused on the emotions of dealing with infertility -- complete with little vignettes *ad nauseum* from DI parents -- the DI process and dealing with postpartum DI concerns. (While those issues are indeed important and that info useful, it wasn't really what I had expected the book to be majoratively focused on.)

For single women choosing to parent alone or for lesbian couples, you may find this book a little tiresome, as a good 90% of the language and content addresses couples and nearly every vignette/personal story (perhaps 98%) is from a DI couple. The authors are very upfront about this right in the foreword for the book, but they should perhaps be more forthcoming about that fact on the bookjacket/editorial description, as by then you've likely purchased the book. :-) In the meantime, I've ordered Single Mother by Choice (by Mattes) and have higher hopes.

Where has this book been? This book has everything you always wanted to know about DI but had no one to ask. Helping the Stork is truly a support group in a book. This book is as technical as necessary but it deals with the feelings involved in the DI process. This is a very warm book and easy to read. No matter what feelings you are having you will find them in this book. The authors recognize that DI is a physical and emotional journey toward parenthood. Why should you own this book? Because although this is the only DI book published in the 1990s, it is also an excellent book. These authors acknowledge that DI is not just for married couples. There is a section on Becoming a Mom Without a Dad, Becoming a Single Mom Through DI, Lesbian Couples Creating Families through DI, and a section on Celebrating Differences. Other sections I think are wonderful include: Putting Together Your Medical Team, Emotional Needs At That First Insemination, Two Methods of Insemination, When DI Memories Come to Mind, and Selecting on a Donor's Personal Statements. My favorite chapter was chapter 10 - Humor in Hindsight. The book quotes dialogue from Wendy Levy's zany film SWIM, SWIM...TALKING TO SPERM AND OTHER DESPERATE ACTS. "I start to take Clomiphene, a relatively mild fertility drug, and thankfully, I experience no side effects, except maybe locking my girlfriend in the closet once a week if she forgets to vacuum her hair off the bathroom floor. Okay, a few mood swings..." And, if you enjoy reading, which I am sure you do if you are an Amazon fan, this book is worth the price just for the bibliography included in the end of the book.

If there was only one thing I could say about the book Helping the Stork it would be "Why did it take so long for this book to be written?" Carol Frost Vercollone and Heidi and Robert Moss have written an excellent guide for those thinking about using donor insemination to build their families, and also for those who already have their famlies through DI. This book was written for others to explore the issues surrounding donor insemination and to help them come to their own decisions about this common but not openly talked about form of family building. The added bonus is that it is also written for families, friends and health professionals to help in their understanding of the concerns and the issues that DI families face. The authors, from their own personal experience with DI and through counselling others want to provide reassurance that DI can be a wonderfully positive way to build families. This book has an easy to read style and is filled with numerous personal anecdotes from others who have either gone through DI or have some knowledge of it. I felt this was the best part of the book, the connection with others, their advice, fears, thoughts and honesty which can only come from people directly involved with this process. For those of you thinking you are alone in using DI, this book can certainly offer some comfort in the personal stories of others and the authors obvious intimate knowledge of this topic. The book goes through the various steps of DI, the decision making, issues of privacey and disclosure, and how to go about initiating the DI process. The authors are careful to try to cover issues concerning all individuals who may be using DI, including married couples, lesbians and single women. Also valuable in the book is the resource list and the bibliography. I'd like to share this passage from the book which I felt was it's strongest message. "Our goal, both in writing this book and in our counselling, is to change social attitudes toward DI so much that if you do tell, you can feel more confident that your child will ultimately view this news positively, not negatively. It may never be OK that there was so little donor information provided or that your family began with such suffering for the parents, but you'll certainly get across just how wanted your child was." Helping the Stork has been a long awaited for book that will hopefully do just that.

This book is a collection of discrete essays on the theme of the Baltic or Northern wars. In the period following the end of the crusading in the Baltic region four key players emerged to contend for control of the crusader states. These were Sweden, Denmark, Russia and Poland/Lithuania.

Frost analyses the rises and falls of the influence of each of the states over time with regard to a number of factors.
1. He looks at the makeup of the military machines in each state. The ratio of professional and conscript soldiers. The makeup of the officer corps. The percentage of cavalry to infantry. The adoption of firearms, the development of the Huzzar to replace heavy cavalry, the failure of early mounted musketeers against Polish cavalry shock tactics and the ability of well drilled infantry to frustrate cavalry ambitions as practiced by the Swedes.
2. He looks at the relationship between ruler and state, from the wholly autocratic Russian system to the almost democratic Polish and Lithuanian system. The income of ruler and state such as the ability of Danish kings to act autonomously of their parliament due to the money from sound dues etc.
3. He looks (most interesting to me) at the ability of nations to fund war. The cost of standing armies and mercenaries. The need to vote extraordinary funds to armies in times of national peril. The difference in support given to rulers by landowner classes in periods of defence against an agressive neighbour and in periods of national expansion. His analysis of the economics of war is where Frost excels.
4. He also places the northern wars in their temporal, historical and geographical context by commenting on the developments in Western Europe, the 30 years war, the wars of the protestant reformation, the expansion of the Ottoman Turks in the south of the region, the incursions by Tatars from the asian steppes etc.
5. He analyses the impact of war on the societal makeup of the countries in the region. How landownership and serfdom developed, the evolution of the Cossack class, and so on.

If you are looking for an adventure story about knights charging into battle this is probably not the book for you. If you are looking for real history on the different approaches that can be taken to wage war, and how these strategies played out in short and long term, then this is a very useful read.

Because they are discrete essays it is possible to deal with them one at a time. Although the essays move chronologically through time, they deal with different sets of players and different types of tensions. Frost strives to uncover why any given set of strategies was successful in the time period where they worked.

... what more could one possibly ask for in 400 pages? Between 1558 and 1720 the Baltic region was in an almost constant state of war. It began as a quadrangular contest for hegemony, Denmark vs. Russia vs. Sweden vs. Poland, and marked the evolution, in three of these states, of a modern military system led by an autocratic ruler. The unwillingness of fourth, Poland-Lithuania, to adapt its constitution and embrace a militarized state, led directly to its demise. Frost is quick, however, to combat the "traditional" Western history which is dismissive of Eastern military tactics and glibly attributes Russia's early setbacks and Poland's later humiliation to supposed "backwardness." As he explains, the great institutions of the East, such as the Polish cavalry, owed their existence to local conditions and geography. Nor was there any intrinsic reason why Tsarist Russia, as opposed to another political unit, should emerge victorious in the end. The one intriguing element in this drama is the rapid emergence and equally precipitous collapse of Sweden: the first mention of King Charles XII, doomed genius of the North, will quicken the pulse of even the most jaded reader. This is a great piece of scholarly writing.

This has to be Robert Frost's best piece of writing. I've never read poetry this great. I would really recommend it.

I am a huge Robert Frost fan, and having this book lets me take time in my busy schedule to visit his world. I especially enjoyed the broad collection contained in this series. It was, well, wonderful.

Fans of Robert Frost's poetry will appreciate the insight into his life at the Derry Farm in New Hampshire. Lawrence Thompson provides his readers with the details of Frost's daily life which so influenced his poetry. Through Thompson's careful chronicling of Frost's activites, we see the poet as husband, father, neighbor, friend, and farmer. Frost's struggles and triumphs at the Derry Farm shaped all the poetry that followed this time in his life. In this book, Lawrence Thompson does justice to this great poet.