Robert Frost Poetry Collection

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Summary: Table of contents?
Review: According to a library entry, this is what the collection contains:

Side one: The road not taken -- The pasture -- Mowing -- Birches -- After Apple-Picking -- The tuft of flowers -- My November Guest -- Acquainted with the night -- Tree at my window -- West-running brook -- Death of a hired man.

Side two: The witch of Coös -- Mending wall -- One more brevity -- Departmental -- A considerable speck -- Why wait for science -- Etherealizing -- Provide, provide -- One step backward taken -- Choose something like a star -- Happiness makes up in height -- Reluctance.

Side three: An old man's winter night -- The oven bird -- Fire and ice -- The aim was song -- The runaway -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening -- The need of being versed in country things -- Spring pools -- Once by the Pacific -- A soldier -- On looking up by chance at the constellations -- Two tramps in mud time -- A Drumlin woodchuck -- Desert places -- Not quite social -- The hardship of accounting -- Come in -- The gift outright -- It is almost the year two thousand -- The secret sits -- A case for Jefferson -- A cabin in the clearing -- Close for good.

Side four: America is hard to see -- Does no one at all ever feel this way in the least? -- A masque of reason [incomplete].

Rating:
Summary: A Quiet Poet
Review: Robert Frost is not as impressively artistic as other readers might be, but his quiet unassuming style suits the nature of his poetry, and emphasizes how well this consummate poet uses rhyme and rhythm without ever breaking natural speaking patterns to do so. The two cassettes include the poems everybody studies and memorizes. "The Road Not Taken," " Fire and Ice," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Mending Walls," "Birches," and "Death of a Hired Man" are all here. They also include poems that are less familiar to some of us. "A Considerable Speck" is a lovely encounter with a small bug that I had not noticed before.

The breadth of this set makes it a wonderful asset for those who love poetry, and those who hope to teach others to love it. The one drawback is the very short pauses between poems. It is sometimes hard to tell where one poem ends and the next begins if you are not familiar with them.