Robert Frost‘s “Mending Wall” is an obvious choice for #Wall but came to mind because we read it in one of my college English classes. During our discussion one of my classmates, a very literal woman who missed the point, kept insisting rather belligerently that the rest of us (professor included) didn‘t understand the poem. 20 years later, I can‘t forget that, and now I think of how like the man in the poem she was: (continued in comments)
“There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret #tales
That would make your blood run cold...”
My grandma loves RWS & my dad used to read this to us as kids. By the time my English class studied it, I pretty much knew it by heart. #PoetryMatters
“Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by #time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” from Tennyson's Ulysses #QuotsyDec18
"Reject me not, sweet sounds! oh, let me live/Till Doom espy my towers and scatter them,/A city spell-bound under the aging sun./Music my rampart, and my only one." #symphony #QuotsyDec18
A Vagabond Song by Bliss Carman #Autumn #Tree #PoetryMatters
This came to mind for both #LostBooks & #RareBooks. I credit this as one of the school textbooks that reignited my love for poetry. I had tracked down a copy after high school, but I lost it in a house fire. It took over 15 years to find another copy! Half the book has notes pencilled in, but that just adds to the charm. #OldCoolBooks
More about yesterday's #BookHaul! I could barely contain my excitement at finding A Book of Good Poems! It was a textbook I loved in in my teens. I had found a copy after high school, but lost it in a fire. It was difficult to track it down again, but I finally found it! It's marked up, but I think the marginalia make the book more special, despite the distraction. I look forward to reading this again!
A Book of Good Poems | 
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.‘
#Wall #PoetryMatters 5y