Robert Frost reflects on how seemingly inconsequential decisions
can make "all the difference." So good luck!
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
I read this poem aloud in high school and my teacher scolded me for picking such a "common" poem. The Frost poems I love the most are 'Out, Out' 'The Death of the Hired Man' and 'The Subverted Flower' (so weird). Also 'Home Burial' which seems to hang over the movie 'In the Bedroom."
Posted by: Stacey Lehman | July 02, 2024 at 05:52 PM
I think the title suggests not taking the bait of self-doubt, and sticking with the conviction of final stanza. The sigh at end is that he knows others will doubt him.
Posted by: MCLeng | July 03, 2024 at 07:15 PM
If there are two PARALLEL roads, one taken and one not ,one can still arrive at the same destination. For instance, I can take Broadway to 42nd St at Times Square OR i can take 7th Ave to the same destination because both roads ( streets) arrive there.
Such cannot be true for two roads that are not PARALLEL. I cannot take 9th Ave to Times Square nor can i take 1st Ave to Times Square.
Just some food for thought.
Posted by: Joel Weiner | July 04, 2024 at 12:14 AM
But our (lines) so truly parallel,
Though infinite, can never meet.
Therefore the love which us doth bind,
But Fate so enviously debars,
Is the conjunction of the mind,
And opposition of the stars.
Posted by: Karl Ludwig | July 05, 2024 at 05:48 PM
Correction:
9th Ave and 1st Ave ARE parallel to each other but Broadway isn't parallel to either.
Posted by: Joel Weiner | November 27, 2024 at 07:43 AM
Joel's right. And Karl Ludwig's quotation reninds us that not even in Marvell's view of a lover's paaradise can lines "truly parallel" meet in the glamour of infinity. Still, Marvell's "conunction of the mind, / And opposition of the staars is a consummation devoutly to be wished.
Posted by: David Lehman | November 27, 2024 at 03:06 PM