Robert Frost

It is anomalous (but maybe peculiarly American) that Frost should be so strongly associated with the idiom and landscape of New England, since he was born in California (west of the Mississippi River, like the

Good Hours

by Robert Frost (1874–1963)

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I had for my winter evening walk—

No one at all with whom to talk,

But I had the cottages in a row

Up to their shining eyes in snow.

And I thought I had the folk within:

I had the sound of a violin;

I had a glimpse through curtain laces

Of youthful forms and youthful faces.

I had such company outward bound.

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January 29

Robert Frost died, 1963

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

What poem by Paul Verlaine was used to send secret messages to the French Resistance during the Second World War?

Answer

"Chanson d'Automne" (Autumn Song). The poem was broadcast on the BBC's French Service. When the first part of the first stanza was read ("Les sanglots longs des violons d'automne ," or "long sobs of autumn's violins"), it meant that the invasion of Normandy was imminent. When the second part was read ("blesse mon coeur d'une langueur monotone, " or "wound my heart with a montonous languor"), the invasion would occur in the next 48 hours

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