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Handwritten version of 'Happiness Makes Up in Height For What It Lacks in Length' by Robert Frost. Found inscribed in a Robert Frost book in the Special Collections Library at Duke University. Date of signature in the book predates formal release in publication of the poem. The Gift Outright; The Most of It; Come In; All Revelation [2] A ...
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech , [ 2 ] Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.
The poem asks you to analyze your life, to question whether every decision you made was for the greater good, and to learn and accept the decisions you have made in your life. One Answer to the Question would be simply to value the fact that you had the opportunity to live. Another interpretation is that the poem gives a deep image of suffering.
Francis Ledwidge (1887–1917), Irish war poet; David Lee (born 1966), US poet; Dennis Lee (born 1939), Canadian poet, editor and critic; David Lehman (born 1948), US poet and editor; Ágnes Lehóczky (born 1976), Hungarian poet, academic and translator; Eino Leino (1878–1926), Finnish poet and journalist; Brad Leithauser (born 1953), US poet ...
John Lee Clark (born 1978) John Clarke (1933–1992) Lucille Clifton (1936–2010) Joshua Clover (born 1962) Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927) Grace Stone Coates (1881–1976) Stanton A. Coblentz (1896–1982) Andrei Codrescu (born 1946) Robert P. T. Coffin (1892–1955) Ira Cohen (1935–2011) Nan Cohen (born 1968) Jim Cohn (born 1953) Henri ...
The poem is written in iambic tetrameter in the Rubaiyat stanza created by Edward FitzGerald, who adopted the style from Hakim Omar Khayyam, the 12th-century Persian poet and mathematician. Each verse (save the last) follows an AABA rhyming scheme , with the following verse's A line rhyming with that verse's B line, which is a chain rhyme ...
Lentricchia, F., Robert Frost: Modern Poetics and the Landscapes of Self, 1975, Duke University Press (Note: It has been suggested that the structure in question in this stanza is not the barn but the house. This seems to be an impossibility, however, given that, as stated in the first stanza, the chimney is the only part of the house remaining.)
poet: Sea and Fog [4] Will Aitken: b. ? American-Canadian: novelist, film critic: Terre Haute, Realia [5] Magaly Alabau: b. 1945: Cuban American: poetry: Electra y Clitemnestra. Poema [6] Francisco X. Alarcón: 1954–2016: Chicano: poetry: From the Belly Button of the Moon: And Other Summer Poems, Poems to Dream Together = Poemas para soñar ...