Robert Frost @ MindSay

 This has been my all time favorite poem since I was in 6th grade, when I had to learn it and recite it in class. I also used it as an art project in the 8th grade. years ago.........I still know the words by

heart.

 

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening

 

Whose woods these are I think I know.  

His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.                                     

 

I'm going out to clean the pasture spring
I'll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And watch the water clear, I may)
I sha'n't be gone long - you come, too.

I'm going out to fetch the little calf
That's standing by the mother. It's so young
It totters when she licks it with her tongue
I sha'n't be gone long - you come, too.

-Robert Frost

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We interpreted it as a commentary on world situations - going out to take care of what needs to be done, an easy thing, a little effort here that makes a difference and makes the water (or the world) good again. A new civilization or society coming into our keeping. It's a little thing to do, it doesn't take long, join me in this.

Now, I don't know how I think of it, precisely. Just that I have something I'm going off to do. In the grand scheme, it won't take long.

I won't be gone long. You come too.

Please allow me to rip my hair out of my head right about......now.

 

Words cannot even begin to describe the amount of stress surging through my body right now. I'm not even joking this past two days has been absolutely destructive to my general well being. I am sitting in the library right now typing a ten page midterm essay on three different topics...and I had to just pick the hardest ones, right?

 

1.) Why is Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat" an example of Literary Naturalism? What ironies in the story contribute to its themes and what kind of ethic does Crane offer in the aftermath of Darwin?

 

2.) "Stopping by Woods on A Snowy Evening" is one of Robert Frost's most famous poems. If Walt Whitman had composed the poem, how might he have ended it and why?

 

3.) Is Edna a vile woman who perpetrates a set of dangerous cultural attitudes in The Awakening or a heroine who shows America how the world of Victorian values is incompatible with a woman's desires for a happy and satisfying life?

 

Yes, I have decided to answer those 'short' questions for my midterm essay. I even thought those were going to be the most easy, but alas I was wrong. I am wracking my brain over this right now and it doesn't help that this godforsaken dungeon of a library has the heat on so damn high.

 

But this isn't the extent of my night. Oh no. I still have to prepare the rest of that presentation for the Canadian Literary Conference this thursday. And my partner is not exactly helping the way I would like her to. The problem I feel is that we are both Leaders and we all know what happens when you get two Leaders and Not enough followers. This is an Academic Conference not some highschool presentation. There are going to be Professors from different countries as well as Grad Students and Counselate Members. This is not just some leisure trip.

 

Or maybe I am putting too much effort into all of this....I don't know right now. I just feel incredibly stressed...

 

 

I need a beer....

Two hot Scottish guys approached, and I--
I took their phone numbers into my cellular device,
and that has made all the difference.