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 Frost, Robert
| What color was the wood in 'The Road Not Taken'? | Robert Frost
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| What is the other name for the poem 'The Willy-Nilly Slide? | Robert Frost
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| In what country did Frost's work first become famous? | Robert Frost
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A Boy's Will. Published by David Nutt's Widow.
| In the poem 'The Star-Splitter', What did the farmer buy with the insurance money he received after burning down his house? | Robert Frost
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| What kind of tree is the poem 'Wild Grapes' about? | Robert Frost
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| According to 'Mending Wall', what is said to make 'good neighbours.'? | Robert Frost
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| What holiday is being Celebrated in 'To A Young Wretch'? | Robert Frost
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iambic pentameter. Though Robert Frost didn't always write in rhyme, he always wrote with some type of technical challenge. On free verse, Frost once said "I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down."
On tip-toe. "Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table
Waiting for Warren. When she heard his step,
She ran on tip-toe down the darkened passage
To meet him in the doorway with the news
And put him on his guard."
At the last hay time. Warren speaking:
" 'But I’ll not have the fellow back,' he said.
'I told him so last haying, didn’t I?
"If he left then," I said, "that ended it." ' "
Silas took momentary wages over long-term security.. Warren speaking:
"I shouldn't mind his bettering himself
If that was what it was. You can be certain,
When he begins like that, there's someone at him
Trying to coax him off with pocket-money,--
In haying time, when any help is scarce.
In winter he comes back to us. I'm done."
"I found him here,/Huddled against the barn-door fast asleep,/A miserable sight, and frightening, too.". Mary speaking:
"He's worn out. He's asleep beside the stove.
When I came up from Rowe's I found him here,
Huddled against the barn-door fast asleep,
A miserable sight, and frightening, too--
You needn't smile--I didn't recognize him--
I wasn't looking for him--and he's changed.
Wait till you see."
A forked stick some people believe can be used to find water underground. This is also often called a divining stick.
Baling hay. Warren speaking:
"I know, that's Silas' one accomplishment.
He bundles every forkful in its place,
And tags and numbers it for future reference,
So he can find and easily dislodge it
In the unloading. Silas does that well."
Something you somehow haven’t to deserve. Warren is a hard sell when it comes to empathy towards Silas' condition. Mary is responsible for the more famous quote.
Because Silas wasn't bad, just not good enough. Mary speaking:
"Silas is what he is—we wouldn’t mind him—
But just the kind that kinsfolk can’t abide.
He never did a thing so very bad.
He don’t know why he isn’t quite as good
As anyone. He won’t be made ashamed
To please his brother, worthless though he is."
Watch the night sky.. Mary speaking:
" 'Go, look, see for yourself....
I'll sit and see if that small sailing cloud
Will hit or miss the moon.' It hit the moon.
Then there were three there, making a dim row,
The moon, the little silver cloud, and she."
| What kind of an insect did the narrator find in the poem "Design"? | Robert Frost
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spider. The answer can be found in the first line of the poem:
"I found a dimpled spider, fat and white," FYI: Robert Frost was born in 1874 in San Francisco, California.
| In the "Mending Wall" poem, what kind of trees did the narrator have?
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apple. The answer can be found in the 24th line of the poem:
"He is all pine and I am apple orchard." FYI: He made is living as a farmer who would write into the late hours of the night.
| In the poem "Home Burial", whose death is the wife mourning? | Robert Frost
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her child's. In the 32nd line:
"But the child's mound----" FYI: Frost became known as the poet of New England.
| In "The Road Not Taken", at what time of day did he come to the two paths? | Robert Frost
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morning. In the first line of the third stanza:
"And both that morning equally lay" FYI: In 1912 Frost decided to embark on a literary career.
| What disturbed the old man while he was sleeping in "An Old Man's Winter Night"? | Robert Frost
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a log shifting. In the 23rd line:
"And slept. The log that shifted with a jolt" FYI: The first book he published was "A Boy's Will" in 1913.
| In "Nothing Gold Can Stay", what is the biblical place that is mentioned? | Robert Frost
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Eden. In the sixth line:
"So Eden sank to grief," FYI: Frost moved to London, where he found a publisher.
| What does the horse think is "queer" in "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening"? | Robert Frost
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stopping without being close to a farm house. In the second line of the second stanza:
"To stop without a farmhouse near" FYI: Frost received honorary degrees from 44 colleges.
| In "Acquainted With The Night", what luminates against the sky, the literal word, in the line of the poem, not interpretation of what it could be? | Robert Frost
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clock. In the last line of the fourth stanza:
"One luminary clock against the sky" FYI: At the age of 87 he read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.
| In "The Silken Tent", what is the central pole made of? | Robert Frost
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cedar. The fifth line of the poem:
"And its supporting central cedar pole," FYI: Robert Frost died in 1963.
| Frost's poetry is primarily based upon New England life. Where was he actually born? | Robert Frost Poetry
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California. Frost was actually born in California. He did wind up moving to Lawrence, Massachusetts when he was 11.
| This poem's title originally comes from a line in Shakespeare's play, "Macbeth." Which poem is it? | Robert Frost Poetry
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Out, Out. This is easily one of my favorite Frost poems. The personification of the chainsaw in this poem is chilling.
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