Robert Frost

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Nothing Gold Can Stay

by Robert Frost

Fire and Ice

by Robert Frost "The Greatest Speech Ever" on the necessity of standing up against hatred Dust of Snow        by Robert Frost Transition words and phrases for writing strong paragraphs. More Transition Sentences 1. Today we will be working on transition sentences. You will all add at least three of the words and phrases from the following list. Yes, I said "add." It does not matter if you already have three. You must add three more :) 2. Tomorrow we will work on elaboration and Wednesday we will focus on powerful verbs. Thursday we will spend discussion punctuation and the errors that I will never, ever, see in your writing again :)

"The Pasture"       by Robert Frost 1. Copy the poem 2. The poem ends with the words, "You come too." The implication is that we would be happy if we were to follow him. Your assignment is to write a paragraph explaining why  we would be happier if we were to follow him.  3. Before you write, I want you to brainstorm three or four ideas at the top of  your paper. Actually  number them 1, 2, 3. I also want you to circle five important words from the poem and put them  in quotes.  4. Write your paragraph. Insightful topic sentence. Start by stating your interpretation. You might start with something like:                                   In his poem "The Pasture," Robert Frost implies that . . . Write a sentence citing a specific detail from the poem that leads you to your interpretation Write a sentence or two explaining how that word(ing) leads you to your interpretation Write a sentence citing another specific detail from the poem that leads you to your interpretation Write two sentences explaining how that word(ing) leads you to your interpretation Write a concluding sentence 7 sentences minimum "The Pasture"       by Robert Frost

I’m going out to clean the pasture spring;

I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away

(And wait to 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. Three more poems by Robert Frost: Fire and Ice   Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. Robert Frost Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf, So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day Nothing gold can stay. Robert Frost The Quest of the Purple-Fringed I felt the chill of the meadow underfoot, But the sun overhead; And snatches of verse and song of scenes like this I sung or said. I skirted the margin alders for miles and miles In a sweeping line. The day was the day by every flower that blooms, But I saw no sign. Yet further I went to be before the scythe, For the grass was high; Till I saw the path where the slender fox had come And gone panting by. Then at last and following him I found— In the very hour When the color flushed to the petals it must have been The far-sought flower. There stood the purple spires with no breath of air Nor headlong bee To disturb their perfect poise the livelong day ‘Neath the alder tree. I only knelt and putting the boughs aside Looked, or at most Counted them all to the buds in the corpse’s depth That were pale as a ghost. Then I arose and silently wandered home, And for I one Said that the fall might come and whirl of leaves, For summer was done.

The Road Not Taken--by Robert Frost

To begin the period, I would like you to take out a sheet of paper and copy "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost. Then write 3/4 page telling me what you think the message of the poem is. This 3/4 page is supposed to be one very strong paragraph, starting with a topic sentence (what you think the message is) and supporting details from the poem that lead you to this interpretation. We will hand it in at the end of the period.

Be sure that you tell us what Robert Frost is telling us about life. What point is he making about decisions we make.
Examples of topic sentences:
ex. 1  . . . in life there are two different paths and you need to make a decision of which one to take.
ex. 2Frost is sayinig that you have to put a lot of thought into your decisions so that you don't regret them in the future.
ex. 3 Be careful about the decisions you make because you can never go back . . .
ex. 4.The choices that you make will affect your life forever.
ex. 5 The meaning of the poem is to not doubt what you're doing in life, and to always take confidence in your choices and decisions.
ex. 6 Robert Frost is saying that we should be very careful about our decisions because they can affect the direction of your life and if you don't choose wisely, you will regret it for the rest of your life.
ex. 7 Robert Frost is saying that all your life you will have decisions to make, and though you may try the first, you will always wonder what the second would have been.
No matter what, you're going to live with regret because, as humans, we have to make choices that will define our lives, but we'd better choose carefully because there are no second tries. As The Indigo Girls say, "Nobody gets a lifetime rehearsal."

The Road Not Taken TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;	5
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,	10
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.	15
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.	20

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