2 days ago · Pastoral A poem that retreats from the trappings of modernity to the imagined virtues and romance of nature and rural life.

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as …

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I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive.

Is it okay to begin with the obvious? I am full of stones— is it okay not to look out this window, but to look out another? A mentor once said, You can't start a poem...

/ When In A Ballad of Remembrance (1962), the line between these two lines reads: "and smell the iron and velvet bloom of heat." While this line was deleted, the version in A Ballad of Remembrance is …

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, “Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven, …