I think sometimes that people are put off by Frost’s recitations but to me they sound very new england-y. Plus, not everyone is a public speaker just as everyone is not a poet like Robert Frost!
But still, I take the image of someone who pauses in the dark to look around and listen to the world and to see its beauty, knowing that he won’t stay because he has yet miles to go. In the moment of connection, however brief, we can all note the beauty and darkness around us.
Here’s another often quoted poem of Frost’s (and often mis-interpreted…) by another reader sounding very mysterious:
