[etni] Fw: Robert Frost
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From: Miriam Greif - mgreif@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Robert Frost
Dear coleagues,
re: The Road Not Taken
Thank you Gail for guiding us to the lovely site on Robert Frost. For many
years I disagreed with the assumption that the "sigh" implied regrets...
(maybe due to my own personal experience of suddenly taking a path which
changed my life. I still sometimes "sigh" and wonder what would have
been... but I have never regretted it).
For those who are still teaching that lovely poem, here is a quote I found
most interesting.
These are a few quotes by Robert Frost himself:
"On one occasion he [RF] told of receiving a letter from a grammar-school
girl who asked a good question of him: 'Why the sigh?' That letter and that
question, he said, had prompted an answer.
Amherst Mass April 1925
"Dear Miss Yates:
No wonder you were a little puzzled over the end of my Road Not Taken. It
was my rather private jest at the expense of those who might think I would
yet live to be sorry for the way I had taken in life. I suppose I was gently
teasing them. I'm not really a very regretful person, but for your
solicitousness on my behalf I'm
your friend always
Robert Frost"
[Finger, L. L.: "Frost's 'The Road Not Taken': a 1925 Letter come to Light",
American Literature v.50]
Illustrated Poetry of Robert Frost
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/1487/index.html#menu
Miriam Greif
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