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Poet: Robert Frost
Poem: 27.
The Onset
Volume: New Hampshire
Year: Published/Written in 1923
Poem of the Day:
Dec 22 2001
Comment 2 of 2, added on October 16th, 2005 at 6:31 PM.
i have worked outside almost everyday for 35 years.each year when the first snow falls and ''hisses on the yet uncovered ground''we stop for a moment and listen and reflect upon the coming winter. to have frost give it context hasmeant much to me.....a poet can only use an opening line once....growing up as i did in new england, the words''always the same''were a common saying usually spoken with a certain urgency,a sense of foreboding tinged with resignation. it interests me greatly that frost burned up those words to start this poem, my favorite of all his works.
george kiberd from United States
Comment 1 of 2, added on August 30th, 2005 at 9:21 AM.
Almost my favourite. Hear it read aloud and you'll see why.
Mike from United Kingdom
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i have worked outside almost everyday for 35 years.each year when the first snow falls and ''hisses on the yet uncovered ground''we stop for a moment and listen and reflect upon the coming winter. to have frost give it context hasmeant much to me.....a poet can only use an opening line once....growing up as i did in new england, the words''always the same''were a common saying usually spoken with a certain urgency,a sense of foreboding tinged with resignation. it interests me greatly that frost burned up those words to start this poem, my favorite of all his works.
george kiberd from United States