Thursday, May 5

The Pasture      Choral rendition
   Why is this poem listed at the first of the Robert Frost Complete Poems anthology?
   What is revealed about Frost's writing in the poem?
Read 922 in The American Experience (AKA "Big Red Book" in this classroom)
The Road Not Taken
Stopping By Woods on a Winter's Eve
Nothing Gold Can Stay
 http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/I_sit_beside_the_fire_and_think
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XInL2u0DP88 (Robert Frost presidential reading)

Quote of the day:
"Beauty is ephemeral--because if it was there all the time, it wouldn't be beautiful"
       --Taylor Leveck

End of the year countdown.
You only have to see my face: 16   more times!

I sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
in summers that have been;

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun
and wind upon my hair.

I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall ever see.^[3]

For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.

I sit beside the fire and think
of people long ago
and people who will see a world
that I shall never know.

But all the while I sit and think
of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet
and voices at the door.