N.H. looks to road not taken Oct 6, 2009
Robert Frost's cherished farm in Derry, N.H. (Suzanne Kreiter/ Globe Staff) By Globe Staff / October 6, 2009 ... DERRY, N.H. - Robert Frost arrived at the farm known as Magoon Place in 1900 gripped by despair ... It would mean the compromise of a real gem, said Charles Dent, cochairman of the board of trustees of the Robert Frost Farm, which is leading opposition to the change, along with the state Bureau of Historic Sites, which operates the farm for the state. (Boston Globe)
Harvard's Gates receives literary award Oct 6, 2009
Previous recipients include Robert Frost, Arthur Miller and Doris Kearns Goodwin. Gates' arrest in July by a white Cambridge, Mass. (Concord Monitor)
Small wonders Oct 4, 2009
Yet he hung out with Hemingway, Robert Frost, and Waring. the blender guy. (Boston Globe)
Charity Auction Nets $1.1 Million For AIDS Sep 30, 2009
But amfAR CEO Kevin Robert Frost celebrated the first "flicker of hope" that the AIDS epidemic may one day be contained, the news last week that a two-vaccine combination tested in Thailand had cut the risk of being infected with HIV by one-third. Researchers say the results are not good enough for immediate use, but the results were widely viewed in the AIDS prevention and research camps as a hopeful sign. (KIRO TV, WA)
Analysis of Robert Frost's The Moun... Sep 26, 2009
Analysis of Robert Frost's The Mountain. Analysis of Robert Frost's The Mountain ... Analysis of "The Mountain" shows how Robert Frost used both description and dialogue to convey a story. (Suite101.com)
BSO opens season by honoring one of its own Sep 25, 2009
The second movement, On Birches after the Robert Frost poem, is more chipper, caffeinated, and rhythmically emphatic, with an extended cadenza that puts the soloist s virtuosity squarely on display. And Pilot had plenty of it to show this appreciative audience. (Boston Globe)
Kennedy ally wins appointment Sep 25, 2009
Senator John F. Kerry grew emotional as he read a Robert Frost poem and recalled Kennedy s desk in the Senate chamber being topped with a vase of white roses. After delivering his remarks, he gave Kirk a hug. (Boston Globe)
Mackenzie Phillips says her dad John Phillips gave her the first shot of drugs Sep 24, 2009
by Robert Frost, published in 1916. Posted by: Jeff Yount. (FOX61, CT)
HERSOM: Bob Spoo is worth knowing Sep 18, 2009
Posted: Friday, September 18, 2009 Blame it on Robert Frost and his two roads diverging in the woods, if you like. For as long as I can remember and much to the lament of family and friends, my mind will sometimes veer off down some tangential trail, leading me from Point A to Point Z and then back to Point B.. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
15 vivid North American road trips Sep 16, 2009
From Henry David Thoreau and Robert Frost to crooner James Taylor and funky Earth, Wind & Fire, generations of American artists have been inspired by the vivid season. New England is still the holy grail of fall-foliage pilgrims. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Editorial: Homeless need help not scorn Sep 16, 2009
Anybody who has taken an 11th-grade English class is familiar with Robert Frost s poem Fences and its closing line, Good fences make good neighbors. Although ensuring boundaries physical and emotional does help to keep the peace, some people have taken this philosophy a little too far. (Chelmsford Independent, MA)
Looking Up: Poetry in the night sky Sep 13, 2009
Robert Frost (1874-1963) had several poems with the night sky in mind. Here s a few lines he wrote about meteors, in A LOOSE MOUNTAIN (TELESCOPIC). (Belmont Citizen Herald, MA)
Senate pays tribute to Kennedy, looks ahead Sep 9, 2009
Rather than the back-to-work paperwork laid neatly on the other 99 desks, Kennedy s desk carried only a copy of the Robert Frost poem The Road Less Traveled. The Senate chaplain noted the end of an era, using his opening prayer to thank God for Kennedy s life and legacy. (Boston Globe)
Same cloth, different cut Sep 7, 2009
Law failed to heed the advice the poet Robert Frost had given Jack Kennedy at his inauguration in 1961. Be more Irish than Harvard, Frost said. (Boston Globe)
Nicholson Baker’s ‘The Anthologist’ offers antic polemic on reasons for rhyme Sep 6, 2009
A further complication is that while he is all in favor of poetry that rhymes, he has given it up in his own work, instead composing poems in unrhymed, free verse, which, he agrees with Robert Frost, is like playing tennis without a net. His distaste for free verse began in fourth grade when the teacher, encouraging students to write poems, assured them they didn t need to rhyme. (Boston Globe)
Famous people who used to teach Sep 4, 2009
Robert Frost: Like King, Frost worked as a teacher to supplement the income from his fledgling literary career. Frost worked as both a farmer and teacher at the Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire. (CNN)
New park offers X-rated views of NYC hotel guests Aug 26, 2009
Robert Frost is considered by many to be one of Americas most acclaimed poets ... com ) honored the poet at his familys home, the Robert Frost Farm State Historic Site in Derry, N.H. The farm is the 47 th landmark to be refurbished through the Save-A-Landmark program. (Fresno Bee)
History's shadow over Obama's Vineyard vacation Aug 25, 2009
"Something there is that doesn't love a wall," warned New Englander Robert Frost in his poem "Mending Wall" nearly a century ago. "Before I built a wall I'd ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out,And to whom I was like to give offence.". (Christian Science Monitor)
Karla Kuskin, children's book writer, dies at 77 Aug 24, 2009
She quickly became a devotee of Robert Frost, Ogden Nash, A.A. Milne and the Mother Goose books, among many others. "Every week I took out piles of books. After school I would curl up with a book, cookies and milk," she wrote in a brief autobiography on the Web site scholastic. (Longview Daily News, WA)
Richard Poirier; literary critic and writer who founded Library of America Aug 22, 2009
He wrote books, essays, articles, and reviews about America s most perceptive writers and thinkers - Henry James, Robert Frost, and Norman Mailer, among others - but he also explored such cultural phenomena as the American invasion of the Beatles. In Learning From the Beatles, an essay originally published in Partisan Review in 1967, Dr. Poirier was one of the first commentators to contend that the album Sgt. Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band represented an intermingling of pop and serious... (Boston Globe)
Neighborhood reality show borders on creepy Aug 10, 2009
LOS ANGELES - It's a safe bet that when reality TV impresario Mike Fleiss designed his latest trap for human lab rats, he didn't consult the work of poet Robert Frost. If he had, the man behind the "Bachelor" franchise might have stumbled across Frost's warning that "Something there is that doesn't love a wall" and abandoned his current CBS project, "There Goes the Neighborhood," which premieres on Sunday at 9 p.m. ET.. (MSNBC -- News)
Review The Notebooks of Robert Fr... Jul 31, 2009
Review The Notebooks of Robert Frost. Review The Notebooks of Robert Frost ... Robert Frost left behind more than his poems. (Suite101.com)
Things not done, roads not taken Jul 26, 2009
But it is another insight from that same Robert Frost poem that concerns us here: "knowing how way leads on to way.". For our vacation way led onto way, and we found ourselves at a Vermont sugar house where the soft-serve ice cream (the term of art in these parts is "creemie") is laced with maple syrup, a gallon in each container of the mix. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Character Development-The Death of ... Jul 21, 2009
Robert Frosts Poem Shows How Blank Verse Can be Effective. Robert Frost's poetry includes many blank verse pieces ... provided an overview of The Death of the Hired Man, Robert Frost s blank verse poem first published in 1914. (Suite101.com)
Davis family 'existing' Jul 21, 2009
Robert Frost was one of her favorite poets, and she enjoyed listening to Rihanna. She'd spend hours at night laughing with her siblings in her room. (Daily Collegian, PA)
NAACP is needed 100 years later Jul 20, 2009
Perhaps the poet Robert Frost encompasses my sentiments best as he stopped by the woods one evening: The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But there are promises to keep, and miles to go, before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep. The Rev. Douglas Demetrius Prather, civil/human rights activist, is a native of Atlanta and former member of the NAACP national board of directors. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Controversy Unlimited: Political Garbage Disposal Jul 19, 2009
Reminiscent of the English poet Robert Frost statement something there is that doesnt like a wall, these anti-Zoomlion posse led by a former Member of Parliament, close to the seat of government and power have purposed in their hearts to bring the company to its knees. Nobody knows why Zoomlion, which is not simply lining up somebodys pockets but benefiting the entire country is next in line for state-sponsored attacks; my guess is that it is ostensibly because it is a sponsor and... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
The Death of the Hired Man an Ove... Jul 18, 2009
Robert Frost Shows his Skill in Conversational Blank Verse. Robert Frost's "The Death of the Hired Man" demonstrates the art of blank verse ... Robert Frost published his second book of poetry, North of Boston, in England in 1914 and in America in 1916. (Suite101.com)
Life's lessons, by the book Jul 18, 2009
Your guilty pleasure is: Reading Robert Frost poems aloud to your best friend in abandoned churches. Lord of the Rings. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Media Watch- The best ever Jul 16, 2009
It was eerily reminiscent of Robert Frost s ode on the death of Elvis, as I m sure you remember. Angelou s poetic inspiration soared as she wrote of Jackson, He took a pose/ On his toes. (Billerica Minuteman, MA)
Sotomayor Promises "Fidelity to the Law" Jul 14, 2009
"From the beginning, the American Philosophical Society attracted some of America's finest minds. Early members included George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Paine, David Rittenhouse, Owen Biddle, Benjamin Rush, James Madison, Michael Hillegas, and John Marshall. The Society also drew philosophers from other nations as members, including Alexander von Humboldt, the Marquis de Lafayette, Baron von Steuben, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, and Yekaterina Romanovna... (CBS News)
Kaduce: A North Iowa Everyman (North Iowa Neighbors) Jul 13, 2009
He s sort of an elderly North Iowa Everyman, though an 81-year-old retired farmer, truck driver, cattle doctorer, railroad man and grain elevator man, dressed in overalls and a seed cap, looks a bit like the poet Robert Frost. I baled a lot of hay, Louie said at his home in Meservey. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
Vikings' plans stuck in mud until Brett Favre makes up mind Jul 10, 2009
By Larry Weisman, USA TODAY "Something there is that doesn't love a wall" so wrote the poet and football fan Robert Frost. "Something there is that doesn't love a Williams Wall" so notes any team trying to run the football against the Minnesota Vikings. (USA Today -- Sports)
PEGGY NOONAN Jul 5, 2009
It is not often it is increasingly rare that the academy shares the views of the local dry cleaner, the student flying coach and the high school teacher, but all agree on Mr. McCullough, as they did half a century ago on, say, Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg. He is admired by normal people and esteemed by the intellectual establishment. (The Drudge Report)
* Homeschooling is back Jul 2, 2009
According to Teri Ann Berg Olsen, creator of the Knowledge House Web site, poet Robert Frost was homeschooled, and flight pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright were often allowed to stay home from school to work on their own projects. . (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
After 19 years, Souter and the Supreme Court part, with poetry Jun 30, 2009
As the New Englander retires, he and Chief Justice John Roberts exchange warm letters of farewell and a few verses of Robert Frost ... The poet Robert Frost speaks to life-long New Englanders like David Souter in ways other poets cannot. (Christian Science Monitor)
Imagery and Metaphor in "Into My Ow... Jun 26, 2009
Robert Frost's Poetic Techniques Enhance the Eternal Message. Robert Frost does not rely on form alone in his early poems ... So the modern readers must try to think about what highway meant to Robert Frost. (Suite101.com)
Robert Frost's "Into My Own" Jun 24, 2009
Robert Frost's "Into My Own". Robert Frost's "Into My Own" ... Robert Frost's early poems reflect a high-level of poetic craft and mastery. (Suite101.com)
Man: Woman killed in Iran protests wanted freedom Jun 23, 2009
He described Soltan as a plain-spoken woman who loved poetry - Iran's Rumi and America's Robert Frost were her favorites. Makan said that her pacifism made Soltan a "real Iranian.". (Fresno Bee -- State)
An interesting biography of A.B. Guthrie Jun 21, 2009
He could count among his friends Robert Frost, Bernard DeVoto and James Michener. Benson does an impressive job of transporting a reader through the rise and fall of Guthrie's life. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Why Bill Kauffman Is Not a Conservative Jun 16, 2009
If we have to play Name that Tendency I d opt for Little American, front-porch republican, localist, decentralist, libertarian, or, to borrow Robert Frost s term, plain old Insubordinate American anything but C. (With a nod to Shel Silverstein. (The American Conservative)
Learning - Sought With Ardor Jun 2, 2009
Most of my lunch periods at Robert Frost Junior High School in Fairfax, Virginia were spent reading in the library rather than eating in the cafeteria. This love of reading and learning made Judge Sonia Sotomayors story resonate with me. (Townhall.com)
Show or Tell Jun 1, 2009
Before the program era: Robert Frost (second from left), the world s first writer-in-residence, at Bread Loaf. Related Links. (New Yorker)
Democracy in Vermont Jun 1, 2009
He is the real Vermont, the enduring Vermont, not the picture postcard, not the New York Times reader in her air-conditioned summer home, but the Vermont of Robert Frost (a Grover Cleveland Democrat who placed his faith in insubordinate Americans ) and craggily iconic Sen. George Aiken, who once explained that some folks just naturally love the mountains, and like to live up among them where freedom of thought and action is logical and inherent. (The American Conservative)
Daniel C. Tosteson, 84, dean of Harvard Medical 20 years May 29, 2009
A large portrait of the poet Robert Frost hung in Dr. Tosteson's office, and he could quote the poetry of William Carlos Williams "at the drop of a hat," said Dr. Jim Adelstein, the Paul C. Cabot distinguished professor of medical biophysics at the medical school. "He felt that poetry captured the spirit of humanity that he was interested in.". (Boston Globe)
Texting 2 much May 24, 2009
"We read a poem on Robert Frost, and when a student saw a closed parenthesis, the student said Oh, he put a sad face,' " she said. Laurie said capitalization and punctuation are partly lost in the formal writing done in her English classes since the advent of computers, and she said texting has made the problem even worse. (Odessa American, TX)
• 'Between Fences' could make good neighbors May 22, 2009
There'll be "Don't Fence Me In"-type Western music performed by Keith Joe Dick, Jim Paisley and Fletcher Brock, and a recitation of Robert Frost. There will be a contemporary photo exhibit of fences - physical and metaphorical - curated by Ketchum photographer Alfredo Rego and thematic art quilts created by Alfredo's wife, award-winning quilter Leslie Rego. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Poetry for Pelosi May 19, 2009
So, with apologies to Robert Frost and kudos to Edgar Allan Poe, here's my take on this insanity with Ms. Pelosi. Fancy Nancy By Mike Huckabee. (Fox News)
Getting the small things right May 17, 2009
And, as Edward's friend Robert Frost put it in a different context, that has made all the difference, and not only because the extra line, spread over the length of the passage, ended up saving a page ... With his death came the death of a special era in American letters, for Mr. Lathem was the center of a remarkable universe that included such disparate figures as Robert Frost, Dr. Seuss, Wallace Stegner, Erskine Caldwell, Paul Sample, and members of the Calvin Coolidge family ... That gift is... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
GOP Revival Tour? May 12, 2009
It s like the Robert Frost poem of the two roads in the woods that diverge. Each one will take you to an extremely different conclusion, and we have to decide which one we wish to go down. (Human Events Online)
GRSF sonnet contest returns May 7, 2009
For those looking for inspiration, Armstrong suggests reading sonnets by poets such as John Keats, William Wordsworth, Robert Frost, David Wojahn, Molly Peacock, Ron Wallace, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and, of course, Shakespeare. It helps give you the rhythm, Armstrong said. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Inside Scoop: Rosey Neill Apr 30, 2009
I really enjoyed writing the essay about "The Silken Tent" because I really like Robert Frost and this is one my favorite poems of his. If you get a chance, look up this poem, it's a great one. (Gostanford.com)
Looking for the right words for friends Apr 29, 2009
Another reader sent me a Robert Frost poem. It ends like this: "Two such as you with such a master speed, Cannot be parted nor be swept away, From one another once you are agreed, That life is only life forevermore, Together wing to wing and oar to oar." That's also pretty good, but I can't see my friend with an oar. (Boston Globe)
Residents rally to save Memorial, Sarah Long bridges Apr 29, 2009
As one of the many placards summed up, taking a cue from New Hampshire poet Robert Frost: Good Bridges Make Good Neighbors. . (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Reed's Ark: Old-fashioned forecasting Apr 28, 2009
To keep us all on our toes, it would be wise to remind ourselves of this quote from Robert Frost s poem Two Tramps in Mud Time. The sun was warm but the wind was chill. (Marshfield Mariner, MA)
Life's Song Set to Poetry Apr 20, 2009
A few of those talented American poets include Phyllis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, Anne Bradstreet, May Swenson, William Blake, Maya Angelou, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman and Gwendolyn Brooks. Each of these poets has written poems that capture the essence of historic times and experiences in America s past. (Suite101.com)
New president has big plans for GSU Apr 17, 2009
He invoked, as a kind of working slogan for that scheme, a mixture of an old advertising pitch for Virginia Slims cigarettes and a line from poet Robert Frost: We ve come a long way baby, but we ve got miles to go before we rest. That line brought laughter. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Glaxo and Pfizer create new HIV drug company Apr 17, 2009
Kevin Robert Frost, chief executive of amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, said it is "a little early to know" how the venture will affect patients. "By focusing singularly on HIV, they should be able to accelerate their research and development efforts to bring new and better treatments to market," he said. (Yahoo News -- Pharmaceutical Industry News)
Jazzmouth turns 5 with Mose Allison and Donald Hall as headliners Apr 16, 2009
Hall's literary resume is a marvel with highlights including 20 published books of poetry, 20 published books of prose, several dramatic works, two Guggenheim fellowships, the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Silver medal, a Lifetime Achievement award from the New Hampshire Writers and Publisher Project, and the Ruth Lilly Prize for poetry. Hall is among America's most respected poets, and his readings are legendary. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Spiritually Speaking: It's spring, so let us begin anew Apr 11, 2009
A Prayer in Spring by Robert Frost. Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. (Dover Sherborn Tab, MA)
The Stars of Southlake come out Apr 11, 2009
Wright ended his speech by reciting The Road Less Traveled by Robert Frost and he encouraged the room to reach and touch lives, especially the youth. Reader Comments Comments are limited to 200 words or less. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Bureau Valley video quiz winners Apr 9, 2009
The lessons included a study of Robert Frost and his poem titled the ;Mending Wall. Students analyzed the saying from the poem ;Good Fences Make Good Neighbors,; and they also explored the great fence crisis on the Great Plains with the introduction of barbed wire. (Princeton Bureau County Republican, IL)
The Final Word Apr 8, 2009
Other than the odd Robert Frost offering Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, for instance most poems leave me perplexed. And not pleasantly so. (USA Today -- Life)
CNN 'Crossfire' creator Tom Braden dies at 92 Apr 5, 2009
Braden decided to become a journalist at the suggestion of the poet Robert Frost, Susan Braden said. In 1975, he wrote the best-selling book, "Eight is Enough," about his eight children, which was made into a television sitcom that starred a crusty political columnist named Tom Bradford. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Editor Howard Junker talks Zyzzyva Mar 27, 2009
Catching up with Howard Junker. Article:Catching up with Howard Junker:/c/a/2009/03/25/DDMN15VDDQ.DTL Article:Catching up with Howard Junker:/c/a/2009/03/25/DDMN15VDDQ.DTL. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
