A Further Range

By Robert Frost

Above all in A Further Range Frost expresses a weariness with the demands of the chaotic age and a seeming desire to disengage. As such, the Depression appears with expressions of disdain for mass political solutions which appear futile. Frost employs his verse to deny the demands which the demanding world makes on the individual.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Reading Essentials
• Release date: Jun 26, 2019
• ISBN: 9788834145869

Robert Frost

Robert Frost (1874-1963) was an American poet. Born in San Francisco, Frost moved with his family to Lawrence, Massachusetts following the death of his father, a teacher and editor. There, he attended Lawrence High School and went on to study for a brief time at Dartmouth College before returning home to work as a teacher, factory worker, and newspaper delivery person. Certain of his calling as a poet, Frost sold his first poem in 1894, embarking on a career that would earn him acclaim and honor unlike any American poet before or since. Before his paternal grandfather’s death, he purchased a farm in Derry, New Hampshire for Robert and his wife Elinor. For the next decade, Frost worked on the farm while writing poetry in the mornings before returning to teaching once more. In 1912, having moved to England, Frost published A Boy’s Will, his first book of poems. Through the next several years, he wrote and published poetry while befriending such writers as Edward Thomas and Ezra Pound. In 1915, after publishing North of Boston (1914) in London, Frost returned to the United States to settle on another farm in Franconia, New Hampshire, where he continued writing and teaching and began lecturing. Over the next several decades, Frost published numerous collections of poems, including New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (1924) and Collected Poems (1931), winning a total of four Pulitzer Prizes and establishing his reputation as the foremost American poet of his generation.

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A Further Range 

by Robert Frost

First published in 1936

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A Further Range 

 by 

 Robert Frost

To E. F.

for what it may mean to her that beyond the White Mountains were the Green; beyond both were the Rockies, the Sierras, and, in thought, the Andes and the Himalayas—range beyond range even into the realm of government and religion

Many of these poems have had the advantage of previous publication in The Saturday Review of Literature, The Yale Review, Poetry, Scribner’s Magazine, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The American Mercury, Books, Direction and The New Frontier. The author wishes to make grateful acknowledgment.

TAKEN DOUBLY

A Lone Striker

or, Without Prejudice to Industry

Two Tramps in Mud Time

or, A Full-time Interest

The White-tailed Hornet

or, The Revision of Theories

A Blue Ribbon at Amesbury

or, Small Plans Gratefully Heard Of

A Drumlin Woodchuck

or, Be Sure to Locate

The Gold Hesperidee

or, How to Take a Loss

In Time of Cloudburst

or, The Long View

A Roadside Stand

or, On Being Put Out of Our Misery

Departmental

or, The End of My Ant Jerry

The Old Barn at the Bottom of the Fogs

or, Class Prejudice Afoot

On the Heart’s Beginning to Cloud the Mind

or, From Sight to Insight

The Figure in the Doorway

or, On Being Looked at in a Train

At Woodward’s Gardens

or, Resourcefulness Is More than Understanding

A Record Stride

or, The United States Stated

TAKEN SINGLY

Lost in Heaven

Desert Places

Leaves Compared with Flowers

A Leaf Treader

On Taking from the Top to Broaden the Base

They Were Welcome to Their Belief

The Strong Are Saying Nothing

The Master Speed

Moon Compasses

Neither Out Far Nor In Deep

Voice Ways

Design

On a Bird Singing in Its Sleep

After-flakes

Clear and Colder

Unharvested

There are Roughly Zones

A Trial Run

Not Quite Social

Provide Provide

TEN MILLS

1. Precaution

2. The Span of Life

3. The Wrights’ Biplane

4. Assertive

5. Evil Tendencies Cancel

6. Pertinax

7. Waspish

8. One Guess

9. The Hardship of Accounting

10. Not All There

11. In Div´es’ Dive

THE OUTLANDS

The Vindictives—The Andes

The Bearer of Evil Tidings—The Himalayas

Iris by Night—The Malverns (but these are only hills)

BUILD SOIL

Build Soil (As delivered at Columbia, May 31, 1932, before the National party conventions of that year)

To a Thinker

AFTERTHOUGHT

A Missive Missile

TAKEN DOUBLY

A LONE STRIKER

The swinging mill bell changed its rate

To tolling like the count of fate,

And though at that the tardy ran,

One failed to make the closing gate.

There was a law of God or man

That on the one who came too late

The gate for half an hour be locked,

His time be lost, his pittance docked.

He stood rebuked and unemployed.

The straining mill began to shake.

The mill, though many, many eyed,

Had eyes inscrutably opaque;

So that he couldn’t look inside

To see if some forlorn machine

Was standing idle for his sake.

(He couldn’t hope its heart would break.)

And yet he thought he saw the scene:

The air was full of dust of wool.

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