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  1. I didn’t study Frost, but I did choose to study William Blake. I liked his Tyger piece. Eventually went into a deconstruction and comparison between the sheep one, the tiger one, and another one.

  2. Another reason why neo, Lileks, VDH, Steyn, and others ought to start a radio syndication appealing to high information citizens.

    It would be delightful and constructive.

  3. Like most poets, the poesy can be taken in a number of ways.
    Something there is that doesn’t love a wall…is frost heave which happens every year. So you are doomed to brute labor every spring. Are you sure it’s worth it?
    know what I was walling in or out….yeah, because keeping sheep out is different from keeping a bull in. You have to know your business or things could go wrong.
    When I studied it, the general conclusion was that we were to understand walls were icky and mean-spirited.
    So Frost uses the commonness of reality to make a point. But if you understand the reality, it might not be the point you get in a suburban high school or a college learning from an instructor who’s never been more than one summer vacation away from formal ed since kindergarten.
    It is not, I submit, an instruction manual about walls. But good fences making good neighbors is common sense. We have permanently agreed on the metes and bounds and neither of us has to be suspicious of the other’s intentions as to land. Life is incrementally easier.
    Sure, you can get from and put in other meanings. And nobody can argue, since Frost is dead and might not want to referee the contest anyway.
    Poetry as a Rohrshach test doesn’t interest me. But it does employ a good many people.

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