Nature's first green is gold,

[ET Awful]

Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

[bicentennial_baby]

1. My favorite Robert Frost poem

Beautiful...

[ET Awful]

2. I remember the first time I ran across it was actually

in an S. E. Hinton novel (the Outsiders or That was Then, This is Now, one of those). The main character had used it (if I remember right) as the beginning and ending of an essay about some major life-changing events.

[cedahlia]

4. The Outsiders

Stevie Wonder wrote and sang a beautiful song based on the poem for the movie version of that book. It comes up at the end of the movie and plays over the credits...makes me bawl like a baby every time too, dammit. ;(

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5. I knew it was one of them :) I never watched the movies,

I couldn't stand Matt Dillon, so I couldn't watch any movie they made out of Hinton's books.

[Gardeaux08]

7. That Was Then This Is Now

The movie was actually set in the 1980's!!! And Matt Dillon wasn't in it...but it was pretty bad so you didn't miss anything.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

3. Nothing gold can stay...I love that line, Robert Frost is the ultimate

American poet...MKJ

[Lavender Brown]

6. Some say the world will end in fire

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

Robert Frost (he was awful bitter wasn't he?) :)

[Gardeaux08]

8. Frost is an American god!!

He wrote another very dark poem...the name of which I can't recall right now. It was about a rural couple who lost a baby and how they deal with it and each other. Very sad...

[Lavender Brown]

9. The long work he wrote for JFK's inaugural is inspiring though

In contrast to the bleak stuff. I read it for a project in HS.

[Gardeaux08]

10. I find

most of his stuff very inspiring. I think I've always thought of him as a true American because he was born and raised in San Fransisco but ended his life as the New England poet. It says he went for what he wanted. And he was an Aries just like me!!

My family has explicit instructions for my epitaph:

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.