Robert Frost

I really don’t like poetry, but I am sitting here reading “Home Burial” by Robert Frost and I’m thinking. Doesn’t it seem like a bunch of drama? It seems so Gone with the Wind to me. I mean who really acts like that. So I am thinking…. Hmm maybe that is why I don’t like poetry? I do know that I am not one of those people who like to deal with drama; I like to say what I need to say and move on.

However, I will say it is one of the better poems that I have read. I could actually read it and understand what the author was saying. I liked the fact that he wrote simply, he seemed to be writing for all to read. In most of the poems that I have read so far it seems that the author goes out of his way to use words that the common person would not understand. Maybe that had something to do with the way society was back then. I am not really sure.

I also really like the Fire and Ice poem; however the last two lines lose me. What does that mean? I also like Nothing Gold Can Stay. But while I am reading this one I think. May be the reason I don’t like poetry, is because I have to STOP and Think?

The rest of his poems had that craziness to them that made no since to me. I could read them over and over and still couldn’t get the meaning. Guess that means I’m simple minded. Who knows? Something else I wanted to mention was the fact that this man, a valedictorian, a farmer, went to Dartmouth. Maybe it wasn’t then what it is NOW but that’s impressive. Not only that but he took off a year and then went back to Harvard. Most things that you read today say’s that when a father dies the son has to pick up the slack. His dad died when he was eleven so his mother must have been rich or cared a lot for education.

I also don’t understand the meaning of poetry. Isn’t it supposed to rhyme? You know, like Doctor Seuss. : ) I love that guy.