Published in his collection West Running Brook in 1928, ‘Tree at My Window’ is one of Robert Frost’s finest poems. In just sixteen lines, Frost explores the relationship between man and nature, and provides a slightly different take on this relationship from that seen in the work of earlier, Romantic […]
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A Short Analysis of Robert Frost’s ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’
‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’ is one of Robert Frost’s shortest poems, and, along with ‘Fire and Ice’, probably his best-known and most widely studied very short poem. The poem was published in 1923, first of all in the Yale Review and then, later the same year, in Frost’s poetry collection […]
A Short Analysis of Robert Frost’s ‘The Gift Outright’
‘The Gift Outright’ is a Robert Frost poem, written in the 1930s but not published until 1942. The poem had a curious afterlife nearly twenty years later, at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, and it was all down to sunlight. But before we get to that, it might […]