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Mon Jan-17-11 05:45 PM
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Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening |
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Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
~R.F.
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Mon Jan-17-11 06:28 PM
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1. I have always loved this. nt |
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Mon Jan-17-11 06:49 PM
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2. Musical tribute to Robert Frost from some local talent |
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Mon Jan-17-11 06:58 PM
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3. It's a lovely poem, but the problem I have with it is |
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that whenever I read it I hear this tune in my head:
Whose woods these are I think I know, Doo dah, doo dah, His house is in the village though; Oh, doo dah day...
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Mon Jan-17-11 07:15 PM
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. :rofl: . . . . . I've since realized that this is an old joke... but I prefer to believe that it also actually happened in this case. This Commanding Officer involved here was reputed to have NOT been amused. . . . Big Communist rallies in Western Europe in the early-to-mid-70's were always seen as a potential safety concern for American troops who lived off post (re: getting home on public transportation). . . . Our CO asked our First Sergeant if the crosstown buses ran all night. . . . . . . . . . Well... would YOU have been able to resist singing the "answer"? . . .
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Mon Jan-17-11 07:18 PM
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5. I have a similar problem. |
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When my 6th grade teacher asked us to read it aloud, with each of us kids reading a line, the girl who read, "His house is in the village though" said "through" instead of "though," and that's how I hear it in my head now - "His house is in the village THROUGH." Drives me nuts, but I can't get rid of "through."
Yes, lovely poem, I agree.
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Mon Jan-17-11 08:16 PM
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6. You think THAT's a problem, let me ruin a few more for you! |
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Forgive me if I'm preaching to the choir here, but I've always been tickled that the old four-three meter, where you have four beats to a line, then three, then four, etc. (called "common meter") means that you can swap around the tunes of many a song, and all the poems of Emily Dickinson, and a few others. So you can do her poems to "House of the Rising Sun", "Amazing Grace", and the theme from Gilligan's Island. "Because I could not stop for death/It kindly stopped for me" works very well with the GI theme.
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Mon Jan-17-11 08:45 PM
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9. I think all of Dickinson's stuff works when sung to "Yellow Rose of Texas" too. |
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Mon Jan-17-11 08:19 PM
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7. I truly love this poem. |
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Frost is an interesting fellow. Now and then he gets it just right, and now and then I think he clunks. I happen to think this one's lovely. And doesn't that last stanza say it all? Thanks for posting.
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Mon Jan-17-11 08:28 PM
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8. This is one of my favorite poems. |
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Mon Jan-17-11 10:33 PM
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10. I memorized this poem in 6th grade. |
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Tue Jan-18-11 03:43 PM
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Tue Jan-18-11 01:30 PM
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11. i'm looking at this poem thumbtacked to my corkboard at my desk now. |
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Tue Jan-18-11 03:04 PM
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12. Whenever I have a very long day ahead |
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I think of those lines: "but I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep" A bit literal, yeah, but it inevitably pops into my head
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Tue Jan-18-11 06:57 PM
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14. It helps sustain me through depression |
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