The Pasture
The opening poem of North of Boston: a farmer heads out to clean a spring and fetch a newborn calf, then turns to invite us along — “You come too,” the gesture that became Frost’s threshold to all that follows.
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The opening poem of North of Boston: a farmer heads out to clean a spring and fetch a newborn calf, then turns to invite us along — “You come too,” the gesture that became Frost’s threshold to all that follows.
Robert Frost (1874–1963), the four-time Pulitzer winner who kept traditional form alive in the modernist age, found whole worlds in stone walls, snowy woods, and forking roads.