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Poem of the Week - Stopping by Woods ...

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening was written in 1922 by Robert Frost, and was published in 1923 in his New Hampshire volume.He wrote this poem about winter in June, 1922 at his house in Shaftsbury, Vermont. Frost had been up the entire night writing the long poem New [...]

Poem of the Week - Red Slippers

Amy Lowell was born in 1874 at Sevenels, a ten-acre family estate in Brookline, Massachusetts. As a young girl she was first tutored at home, then attended private schools in Boston, during which time she madeseveral trips to Europe with her family. At seventeen she secluded herself in the 7,000-book library at Sevenals to [...]

Poem of the Week - The Road Not Taken

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost has been one of the most analyzed, quoted, anthologized poems in American poetry. According to Wikipedia, “Popular explanation of this poem is that it is a call for the reader to forge his or her own way in life and not follow the path that others have already [...]

Poem of the Week - Martin

Alfred Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918) was an American journalist, poet, literary critic, lecturer and editor. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his religious faith, Kilmer is remembered most for a poem entitled "Trees" (1913) which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in [...]
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