… Collected Poems. By Robert Frost, New York: Henry Holt and Company. $5.00. There is a respect in which Robert Frost is … of his feeling that keeps Frost from ever striking the false note. His love of nature goes so deep that he is … The one phrase of the wife’s, “Warren, he has come home to die,” is just the release-snap that changes the irony of the …
Essays
… blink, aiming its entire soundless self toward the music coming from you. Note how it nods along with your tuneful … in Mozart’s expense book, and no more handwritten melodies; no additional transactions were praised as schön! This … trickery—leading tones that drop away from roots, accidentals that jar the listening mind from its diverted stupor, …
… But no one came; no voice called out, “Ready or not, here I come!” She didn’t see a road but a maze. In the morning, she … unusually quiet for a Saturday night. Flynn wasn’t going to die. There would be no internal bleeding or some such horror … happened. She thought about her lilies, the pale green sepals bulging in the moonlight “Tell them I called to say hi, …
… seen a copy of the original sin. The train Of thought becomes lost in the translation. One Tunnel too many. Just now … The mention of a name that sets me back. There is A false courage in numbers. The ties under the train Tracks, …
… the poet claimed to have established the first direct communication between a leader and his people since the age … is linked with the theater.” For the crowd becomes the audience and chorus as well as the instrument of rhetorical … that created the Free State of Fiume. Finally, on December 26th, the Italian cruiser Andrea Doria bombarded …
… restaurants feeding the great American stomach a steady diet of hometown pride and manky coleslaw. A postcard from … asked while we were waiting for one of her screens to come up. “Business or pleasure?” “Business, I suppose,” I … disputes or simple sabotage meant to score political points. In 1999, though, a whopping 497 instances of …