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A poem Frost wrote for JFK’s inauguration has landed in the pile at the JFK Library. In other news, poems written by nearly everyone else have landed in the scrap paper pile beside the printer.
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April 24th, 2006 at 3:44 pm
In elementary school, I was always taught that Frost was a stellar poet. Then, in college, I read this poem and decided that my teachers were smoking crack. Frost is so focused on form in this poem that his rhymes are sing-songy and lack the powerful content that an event such as an inauguration requires. I think that he purposefully “couldn’t read” his poem. What do the rest of you think? Anyone else with me on this?