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Saturday, March 7, 2015

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" -- anniversary from year of writing by Robert Frost (1923)

Credit to "Writer's Almanac" (American Public Media: Garrison Keillor, host):
Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" was published in The New Republic magazine (March, 1923). He called it, "My best bid for remembrance." It certainly was, and it became one of the best known and loved poems in all of American literature.
Right before he wrote it, Frost stayed up all night working on a different poem called "New Hampshire." He'd never worked all night on a poem before, and he was feeling pretty good about that, and so he went outside to watch the sun rise. It was the middle of June and there was no snow in sight.
He suddenly got an idea there, and rushed back in and wrote "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," almost without lifting his pen from the page.
He said of the experience, "It was as if I'd had a hallucination."
Frost said poetry could make you "remember what you didn't know you knew."
http://writersalmanac.org/ (March 7, 2015 online posting)

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