Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, 146 years ago. His poetry touched millions of people’s lives through his use of simple, yet eloquent language. In the article clip below, as advertised in Perth Amboy Evening News on March 11, 1921, Dr. W. E. Barton comments on Robert Frost’s poem, “A Star in a Stoneboat.”
Here are a few segments of his poem mentioned in the article:
“He noticed nothing in it to remark.
He was not used to handling stars thrown dark.
And lifeless from an interrupted arc.”
“He moved it roughly with an iron bar,
He loaded an old stoneboat with the star
And not, as you might think, a flying car.”
“He dragged it through the plowed ground at a pace
But faintly reminiscent of the race
Of jostling rock in interstellar space.”
“Yet ask where else it could have gone as well,
I do not know—I cannot stop to tell:
He might have left it lying where it fell.”
Final Thoughts:
We must reconsider ordinary objects in life for their extraordinary potential. Perhaps these objects have a function we have yet to discover.
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(Contributed by Kristi Chanda)