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The Gift Outright” tells a story about how Europeans came to what would become The Americas, an “unstoried, artless, [and] unenhanced” [12] land, and supposedly turned it into something more enhanced and full of history. Frost emphasizes what Kennedy will do to the United States by including all three variations of the last line of the ...
However, in the bright sunshine of the event he had difficulty reading his new poem and resorted to reciting "The Gift Outright" alone. [4] [5] Frost's handwritten copy was framed with a note from Jacqueline Kennedy written in pencil upon its back: "For Jack. First thing I had framed to be put in your office. First thing to be hung there."
1 The Gift Outright 41; 2 Triple Bronze 42; 3 Our Hold on the Planet 43; 4 To a Young Wretch (Boethian) 44; 5 The Lesson for Today 46; TIME OUT 1 Time Out 55; 2 To a Moth Seen in Winter 56; 3 A Considerable Speck (Microscopic) 57; 4 The Lost Follower 59; 5 November 61; 6 The Rabbit Hunter 62; 7 A Loose Mountain (Telescopic) 63; 8 It Is Almost ...
[The Gift's] heroine is not Zina, but Russian literature. The plot of Chapter One centres in Fyodor's poems. Chapter Two is a surge toward Pushkin in Fyodor's literary progress and contains his attempt to describe his father's zoological explorations. Chapter Three shifts to Gogol, but its real hub is
Invited to recite "The Gift Outright" at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, Frost composed a new, prefatory poem [1] that became "For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration". At the actual event Frost wasn't able to read the latter poem, but still recited the former from memory. [2] [3]
The Gift has been very influential in anthropology, [3] where there is a large field of study devoted to reciprocity and exchange. [4] It has also influenced philosophers, artists, and political activists, including Georges Bataille, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, and more recently the work of David Graeber and the theologians John Milbank and Jean-Luc Marion.
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The Gift is the 19th story in the Big Finish anthology Short Trips: The History of Christmas, written by Robert Dick and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who which features the First Doctor and Susan.