Kate Cone wrote:
>
> .... he actively
> maintained that persona throughout his career. Essentially, he "worked" that
> ten years in Derry, NH as a chicken farmer/teacher/poet for the next 40 +
> years of his life. As Parini says in Some Necessary Angels, Frost's love for
> the limelight did in his poetry in the end.

It's been 40 years or so since I read Frost closely or in bulk, but one
general impression at the time was that he held his readers
(particularly those who bought the "Yankee Farmer" scam) in contempt,
and that this showed in a number of poems in which he was virtually
parodying his own style -- peeking around the corner of the poem as it
were and saying, look at those fools who think this is for real. But his
best poems are, I think, very good indeed.

Carrol