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“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost

One of Robert Frost's most famous poems offers plenty of food for thought

The first time I read Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” I immediately interpreted it (as many others have) as a poem about a suicidal man reluctantly resisting the tempting thought of taking his own life. Here’s … Continue reading

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“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”

-Robert Frost
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“Between Going and Coming” by Octavio Paz

Reading Octavio Paz's "Between Going and Coming" as a reaction to death

Octavio Paz received some seriously impressive accolades during his lifetime: he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1982, and for a period he held the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry … Continue reading

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