After Apple-Picking
Between labor and dream, “After Apple-Picking” drifts toward sleep, fusing sensuous detail with questions of desire and mortality.
The Wood-Pile
Frost’s “The Wood-Pile” turns a found stack of cordwood in a winter swamp into a meditation on craft, abandonment, and time’s quiet entropy.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” captures duty and desire in a quiet winter moment between beauty, rest, and responsibility.
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.
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay” captures the fleeting beauty of youth, nature, and innocence — a timeless meditation on impermanence.