Mending Wall
“Mending Wall” stages a spring ritual of repair as an argument about custom. The speaker mocks his neighbor’s proverb even as he performs the labor that…
Fire and Ice
Frost’s “Fire and Ice” weighs desire and hate as forces of destruction, distilling apocalypse into nine lines of icy wit.
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” explores the complexity of choice and the stories we tell about our lives.