The Poems of Robert Frost

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Unit 12

• The Poems of Robert Frost

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Robert Frost loved nature. He lived in the
country much of his life.

• nature U ???
• much of ???

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He liked to work outdoors. In fact, he was a
farmer for many years.

• outdoors ???

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He picked apples, plowed his fields, and cut down
trees.

• A, B, and C
• cut down ??

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And he wrote poems. Most of them are about nature.

• poem, poet, poetry
• most of the N / most N ????

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He wrote of cold, snowy night and warm spring
days. He wrote of his work on the farm.

• write of sth ??
• work vs. job

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In the poem Gathering Leaves, Frost tells about
cleaning up fallen leaves in fall. The poem
starts

• clear up sth ??
• p.p. ?????

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Spades take up leaves / No better than spoons, /
And bags full of leaves / Are light as balloons.

• no better than
• be full of ??

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I make a great noise / Of rustling all day / Like
rabbit and deer / Running away.

• rustle v.
• deer (?????)

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He must have enjoyed making all that noise.

• enjoy N/Ving ??

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Frost was a teacher, too. He taught his students
how to write poems.

• how to V ???????
• write poems ??

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What should we write about? they would ask.
Write about something you know well, he said.

• something ???

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Good writing grows out of having something to
say. Frost had much to say.

• out of ?
• much ?????

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He always wrote about his own life or things he
knew well.

• or ???
• ????????????

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In The Minor Bird, he wrote about a bird whose
song must have bothered him

• minor adj. ???
• whose ????????????
• must have p.p. ?? (??????)

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I have wished a bird would fly away, / And not
sing by my house all day

• wish ???????
• all day ???

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Have clapped my hands at him from the door / When
it seemed I could bear no more.

• it seems (that) ?? ??
• cannot bear/stand (it) anymore ??????

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The fault must partly have been in me. / The bird
was not to blame for his key.

• partly adv. ??
• be to blame (for sth) ????
• key n. ??

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And of course there must be something wrong/ In
wanting to silence any song.

• must ???????
• in Ving ???

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How that bird bothered him! But then Frost thinks
againmaybe it was his fault, not the birds.

• how ??????
• not ???

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In The Pasture, Frost writes of farm jobs
cleaning leaves out of a spring and going to get
a calf.

• write of sth ??

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Im going out to clean the pasture spring / Ill
only stop to rake the leaves away /

• stop to V vs. stop Ving

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(and wait to watch the water clear, I may) / I
shant be gone long. /--you come too.

• shant ???

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Im going out to fetch the little calf / Thats
standing by the mother. Its so young /

• fetch ???

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It totters when she licks it with her tongue./ I
shant be gone long.You come too.

• she ??????

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Through his poems, Frost let his readers share
his world.

• share ones world

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He let us see what he saw he let us feel what he
felt.

• what ???????

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Perhaps thats why Frosts poems are loved by so
many.

• Thats why/how/when ??
• many ??????

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Any Question About Poetry?