- -----Original Message-----
- From: Samadhi Wimalasena
To: Frost Finder <frostnow@sover.net>
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: FoRF Inq
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- Thank you so much for the help
with Desert places. Yes. I read the Tutorial page. It is a gem.
Before reading it, I was really struggling with everything. I
love Robert Frost Poems though. They reflect Buddhism in some
ways.
- Samadhi
- New Zealand
- -----Original Message-----
From: Rustergirl
To: frostnow@sover.net <frostnow@sover.net>
Date: Sunday, March 04, 2001 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
- You have been great. I am off to
write this paper.
PS When I started this project I picked Frost because I saw him
as a
negative figure. I thought it would make an interesting paper.
However, I
also picked him to see if I could learn more and perhaps appreciate
him as a
poet and I am glad to say I do now. I'd even go so far as to
say that I
identify with his thoughts allot!
Thanks Bunches
Donna
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- -----Original Message-----
- From: Elaine Miller
To: Frost Finder <frostnow@sover.net>
Date: Saturday, February 03, 2001 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: Robert Frost
Dear Friends of Robert Frost, Many
thanks for taking the time and trouble to send the attached email.
It makes very interesting reading and has ignited my interest
in Robert, I shall pop to the library here in Hong Kong and seek
out the publications you recommend.
Kind regards Clint Shaw
-----Original Message-----
From: PhattKatt1@aol.com
To: frostnow@sover.net <frostnow@sover.net>
Date: Monday, January 15, 2001 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: FoRFInq
Thank you so much for the help. My daughter is an aspiring young
poetry
writer, at the age of 14, and has written for and designed bookmarkers
for
her church youth group to sell and give as presents. I am truley
amazed by
her talent.
Lately she has been researching Modern Day Poets and trying to
add more
style to her writing. But she is fascinated with Frost (and has
every right
to be.) I haven't read Frost since my high school days and am
enjoying is
work even more now. We are enjoying his work together.
It is nice to know there are people out there in internet-land
that are able
to help when you need it.
Thanx again,
Margaret Inners
(Kathy Inner's mom)
-----Original Message-----
From: DCZAS@aol.com
To: frostnow@sover.net <frostnow@sover.net>
Date: Friday, January 19, 2001 7:32 AM
Subject: Thank you for your information -- love it!!
Thank you so much for your personal,
prompt response!!! My children are very
interested in seeing Frost's farm (yes, in the spring) and I've
printed up lots
of information to add to our books we're reading!
We are studying "Stopping by
Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Susan Jeffers, a
picture book with his incredible poem. She draws quite a different
feeling
than I had in high school; check her book out sometime! Her pencil
drawings
are beautiful and she has him "stopping by" to make
a snow angel, feed the
wood creatures with hay and seed he brought with him on his sleigh
and flash
back to getting home with his family (hugging his wife with kids
and dogs
playing around him). She uses very little color and just on the
aspects
outside of true nature, the man's horse, the man, the blankets,
and the
family page. Quite interesting and lots to talk about with first
and third
graders!
Thank you again, I'm impressed with
your speed of response and information!
Warmly, Cindy in Nashua, NH
-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Laxson
To: Frost Finder <frostnow@sover.net>
Date: Thursday, November 09, 2000 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: Home Burial
Frost Finder,
How Absolutely fabulous of you. You are a wonderful
person to give people this type of help. I sure wasn't
expecting this much direction but appreciate it very
much. I will hit the library today to check these
references. I have a hard time finding meaning
sometimes behind poems without a boost and I believe
this information will give me the boost I need.
Thanks ever so much.
Kim L
- Glad to help. We all need help
in the beginning. The "boost" you refer to is often
found in literary criticism which helps you catch on to the game
of poetry. Good readers are made,
- not born.
- FF.
-----Original Message-----
From: khakis
To: Frost Tutorial <frostnow@sover.net>
Date: Thursday, August 10, 2000 9:39 PM
Subject: thanks very much
ÿþ
dear frost friends!!
thank you very much for helping me in this poem..i'm really impressed
how professional you people really are..
i'll be in touch soon,with new queries.
keep up the wonderful work.
sincerely,
Humera
Glad to help you out. Where are
you writing from? Are you a student? and may we ask why you are
doing so much on Frost? Just curious.
FF
ÿþ
hello ff!!
We are settled in karachi,pakistan and am a student of literature..you
were right...
we also have other good poets in our syllabus,but i could not
resist frost's magic..and i really enjoy reading his poetry..another
reason to tell you the truth my teacher is really confused herself
about frost..
though i'm not a computer literate but i found your so wonderful
site..and i knew that now there won't be any more problem...
thanks very much for so much help..
i'll be in touch again ..
humera gul
- -----Original Message-----
- From: Matt
To: frostnow@sover.net <frostnow@sover.net>
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 4:50 PM
Subject: "The Silken Tent" by Robert Frost
-
- The title of my paper is "the
silken tent" by Frost, and I have no idea where to begin
I must base this poem on
rhyme scheme
other sound systems(assonance, illiteration)
use of ceasura
and the main point of the paper will have to deal the history
of form: How does the past effect this poem?
Is this a reputation or continuation of tradition?
Form and content?
Please help me because I stink at analysis of poetry.
I appreciate any help that you may give
Thanks, Matthew
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- Matt - thanks for those questions.
I updated our file on The Silken Tent to answer your concerns
and found this poem very interesting in terms of sound devices.
I could not go into the historical perspective. The book referenced
in the file, Fire and Ice by Lawrence Thompson has some
excellent chapters (the first 3 -4) giving Frost's backdrop to
the preceding period. He goes into what Frost was rebelling against
and what he remained steadfast to. Our Hallmark page covers this
too. Try to find that book. It is out of print, but you could
find it in a good college library.
Frost rebelled against the idea of poetry being too ornamental
in terms of sound. His predecessors Coleridge, Swinburne and
Poe had a principle of "musical delight" and musical
notation that deteriorated as it was imitated and wound up with
poetry becoming artificial jingles. Frost also deplored the artificial
poetic diction which was too lush and exuberant in the 19th C.
You can thank Robert Frost you are not trying to figure out,
"Awake, Aeolian lyre, awake,
And give to rapture all thy trembling strings."
T. Gray 18th C. English Poet
Frost coined "the sound of sense" deploring musical
sound. The Silken Tent sounds very beautiful, but it's not a
jingle. Frost wanted his poems to stick with you and he achieves
this because you remember the sound of his poems even before
you can remember the words. Finally you remember the words and
you can't forget them. He's a great poet because of this. He's
very masculine - he does not trip the light fantastic.
Frost also changed the poetic idiom away from artificial language
to everyday language. He liked simple words and phrases. His
vocabulary is simple, but he excels in his powers of association.
Here, a woman like a tent? But you buy it - you are convinced
and charmed at the end of the poem with the analogy.
Another historical question was: What is poetry for? One side
says it is entertainment - for delight. The other side said it
should teach, have a moral. Frost said: "Poetry should begin
in delight and end in wisdom." His poems usually start with
something delightfully described and end with a clarification
of life. Watch out for his endings. He also believed it was the
poet's job to present both sides of issues, but not take sides.
So, most of the time, he offers no conclusion or judgement. He
just gets you out there and pulls a disappearing act. That is
the secret to his charm.
One more thing: the sonnet is supposed to be iambic pentameter.
Here Frost follows this exactly: it is iambic pentameter from
top to bottom. If you need to access those definitions, use Bob's
Byway.
Good Luck
FF
- -----Original Message-----
From: Ernest de Canha
To: Frost Tutorial <frostnow@sover.net>
Date: Saturday, February 12, 2000 8:42 AM
Subject: Frost in South Africa
- Hi frost friends
Once again thank you for your notes, they were a great help,
our teaher was very impressed. Anyway you wanted to know how
Frost is being appreciated in South Africa so I will tell you
how we learn poetry in our school.
I go to a private school in Johannesburg, De La Salle, where
the standerd of education is very high, so I guess you could
say I'm rather priviledged as this isn't the case in most of
the government schools.
I am in Grd 11 by the way.
When we study poetry we are broken into groups. We then have
to analyse the poem and dramatise it. As well as presenting our
notes to the class; basically teaching them and discussing various
interpretations of the poem in an open atmosphere. We do all
sorts of poems from the great writers and we are also expected
to give info on the poet's background. etc. Most people in the
school are familiar with Robert Frost, though as I said he is
not the only poet we study.
Ernest de Canha
-----Original Message-----
From: Adeline Cruz
To: Frost Tutorial <frostnow@sover.net>
Date: Monday, January 24, 2000 10:32 PM
Subject: Re: The Road Not Taken
I am writing from Malaysia. My country
has recently introduced
literature into its syllabus for its students but due to maybe
financial
constraints and the like, English Language teachers have not
been sent
for any training and there are no resources available for us.
I have tried the local universities for reference but since literature
does not feature high in our curriculum, there was not much I
could
find.
I do private tuition and enjoy what I do. So far I've been doing
my
learning of literature off the net.
Thank you for your help. I appreciate it very much.
Sincerely,Adeline
-----Original Message-----
From: Shefali Tripathi - Hyderabad, India.
Date: Sunday, March 26, 2000 1:42 AM
Dear Carole and all other friends of Frost,
Greetings from admirers of Frost
in India on this his 126th birth anniversary
and on the formal inception of your organization.
The internet has made the world
a smaller place but you have so keenly kept us informed of the
activities and the dreams of your organization that we really
feel one with you today. So you have already achieved a part
of your plan to "to connect people who love Robert Frost".
May you be successful in your endeavor
of preserving the Frost legacy and also of making known his life
and works to more and more people around the world and thereby
in furthering Frost's ambition " to lodge a few poems where
they would be hard to get rid of, like pebbles". We believe
that poetry more than any other form of expression has the power
to touch, to fulfill and to heal our souls.
Wishing you all the success,
Anando and Shefali
"Preoccupied with formidable
mail"
