Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast

In a field I looked into going past,

And the ground almost covered smooth in snow,

But a few weeds and stubble showing last.

 

The woods around it have it - it is theirs.

All animals are smothered in their lairs.

I am too absent-spirited to count;

The loneliness includes me unawares.

 

And lonely as it is, that loneliness

Will be more lonely ere it will be less -

A blanker whiteness of benighted snow

WIth no expression, nothing to express.

 

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces

Between stars - on stars where no human race is.

I have it in me so much nearer home

To scare myself with my own desert places.

it's really late there, right? u shud sleep! :stunned:

lmao @ musiclover

 

What's that? Who's it by? Did you write it?

By Robert Frost, a poem :)

 

possibly my fav poem at that

^ ahh... I knew I recognized it!

We studied him for GCSE.... so good :stunned:

cool :)

 

I once wrote a term paper about 3 of his poems, no idea how famous he is :confused:

Have you ever read any of his other nature poetry?

It's all so dark and explains how isolated life was in the American countryside in the 1930s...

It's quite scary sometimes... but I like it :smug:

the other ones i know are "once by the pacific" and one with a spider, so i guess that was one about nature ;) it was quite dark...

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.

...

:o

:stunned: but nice

By Robert Frost, a poem :)

 

possibly my fav poem at that

 

:stunned: he's your favorite? or just this poem?

 

I lived in the village where he spent his life, in New Hampshire...and where he wrote on of his most famous poems ever: Miles to Go Before I Sleep (or rest, is it?!)

 

ahhhhhh and Hayley, I LOVE that Fire and Ice one also :-)

 

I've got the whole anthology of the poems! :wink3: :D

u got my pm, btw? :/

Have you ever read any of his other nature poetry?

It's all so dark and explains how isolated life was in the American countryside in the 1930s...

It's quite scary sometimes... but I like it :smug:

 

 

Hayley, the village he lived in (Franconia, NH), is only 500 folks even now, may be very less than that...but it's not THAT isolated...lol. but it's really a charming, beautiful place! :smug: I loved it there!

I didn't mean he was isolated...

i know where he lived because like i said before, i studied him and his poetry in depth for GCSE.

I meant his poetry portrays the hard and desolate life which people in rural areas had to endure due to lack of communication - both technological and personal.

true...but I always took it as something they wanted in life, not something that was imposed on them. Kind of on the lines of how Thoreau goes to Walden Pond in 1830s (then considered wilderness!) on his own volution, to be with nature...

 

that's romanticism...i guess! lol