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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."
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 ...
Nixon and successor Johnson on Inauguration Day. A major winter storm occurred the day before the inauguration, with temperatures at 20 °F (−7 °C) and snowfall at 1–2 inches (2.5–5.1 cm) per hour [7] and a total of 8 inches (20 cm) during the night, [8] causing transportation and logistical problems in Washington and serious concern for the inauguration.
This collection is the last of Frost's books that demonstrates the seamless lyric quality of his earlier poems. The most popular poem of this volume is "The Gift Outright", which was recited at the presidential inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1961. [1]
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]
Reading of "Nothing Gold Can Stay" "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is a short poem written by Robert Frost in 1923 and published in The Yale Review in October of that year. It was later published in the collection New Hampshire (1923), [1] which earned Frost the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
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Angelou was the first poet to read an inaugural poem since Robert Frost read his poem "The Gift Outright" at President John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961, and the first Black woman.