Overview
A Boyās Will (1913) is a collection of poems by American poet Robert Frost. Published in London and dedicated to the poetās wife, Elinor, A Boyās Will, which received enthusiastic early reviews from both Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats, launched Frostās career as Americaās leading poet of the early-twentieth century. Invoking such figures as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, and Thomas Hardy, Frost ties himself to tradition while establishing his own poetic legacy, grounded in an intuitive sense of rural New England life and the subtleties of the soul.
āInto My Own,ā the collectionās opening poem, reveals the poetās strange wish to āsteal awayā into āthose dark trees, / So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze.ā Without fear, he welcomes uncertainty, ventures into it willingly, knowing it is the only way to live. In āGhost House,ā the poet enters a realm of shades and spirits, an underworld of memory where āa lonely houseā has left āno trace but the cellar walls.ā As he moves through this twilight landscape, encountering the āmute folkā¦Who share the unlit placeā with him, the poet meditates on life and death, their proximity and distance, and his own sense of self within both. āMowingā envisions the poetās work through the prism of rural labor. āThere was never a sound beside the wood but one / And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground. / What was it it whispered?ā The speaker does not know, but continues his task, hypnotized by its rhythm and music.
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