[New-Poetry] Re: frost

[JforJames at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/5/2007 1:52:09 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
grahamd at ripon.edu writes:


I  hated it throughout high school and college, too, as a matter of fact.
What  turned things around for me were two experiences.  First, I  read
Jarrell's essays and Richard Poirier's book in grad school, and  realized
that Frost was in many ways a radically challenging poet  intellectually.


Very similar to my own experience with. It took me a while to realize
the depth and breadth of his merits as poet. It's like Matisse or  Monet...
some of it is too easy to like...so I didn't want to like it. It wasn't  
'innovative'
enough, dare I say. But I came around...hearing Frost read the poems  helped
too. The gravitas and bravura got me, and I began to understand that  in
his time only Wm. James knew more about the human pysche.
Finnegan
 
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