At 12:36 PM 03/13/2002 -0600, you wrote:

>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.

I too think that his best poems make up for all the comedic posturing--
done, after all, to make a living.
==Dan


>Carrol

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