The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Power and Intrigue of Simile - Professor Belinda Jack 

It was one of the best talks on English poetry that I have so far heard on RU-vid. Thanks

This is a digestible portrayal of Frost. So simple it comes within an ace of becoming simplistic. There is no trace of Eliot or Pound in his poetry, or the recherché brand of 'metaphysical intellectualization' ---whatever that means. Frost was a homegrown plant. Call him a weed, a herb, or a giant sequoia reaching for the sky. His poetry thrives on light, air, darkness, and the soil suckling the roots. His poetry engages children as well as decrepit geriatrics. His woods are perennially lovely, dark and deep

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to your presentation on Mr. Frost Poems and his life. I am so overwhelmed to know that I am getting to listen to so many aspects of his writings😍 I have read all of his poems but I can so well relate to his imagination and the style of writing. Thank you so much 😊

Beautiful lecture. This series has been very important to me.

Beautiful. What timing. I had just started reading “Perceptions of the Heart” by Narayan Persaud . Deep emotional on love and break up.

Mr Appolinax -- I just about know every poem of Eliot's since I was 20 many years ago, but not that one, must look it up. The head looking over a fence made me laugh! Frost is a subtle poet. He is somewhere between being a populist but he is like a great, even dark novelist. That one on apple picking is a amazing. The apple picker is so tired he hallucinates. Frost worked at many kinds of jobs, many of them in factories, as a (probably) an apple picker. Labour, was important to him (and what it meant): but in an interview he praises the universities, and their propagation of his work... And while he almost 'realist' there always an ambiguity. There is even something dark, always something troubling. 'Out, out-- ' (with the ref. to Macbeth , 'The Death of a Hired Hand', 'Home Burial', even the almost comic-dramatic '100 Collars. 'Brown's Descent' is a strange one: comical and surreal... , and many others. He was as educated and knowledgeable probably as Eliot and Pound but has a subtle movement. Some whole poems are surreal...People forget how funny some of Eliot's poems can be. This comes partly from his influence by Laforgue who he studied. Laforgue was an amazing poet also....Frost avoids final statements, and is always questioning, so subjunctives or conditionals) prevail. 'If design govern in a thing so small.' Key word to note "if".

Excellent talk....as always. No frills...info.

But 'Mending a Wall' applies almost universally as a metaphor or trope for boundaries, it is not just an American phenomena. We have plenty of fences and fence disputes in NZ. Years ago one of Jacques Cousteau's friends & (a diver) was killed in a dispute over a boundary line in France. (In 'The Silent World'). And we have boundaries that define 'countries', a relatively knew phenomena in human history, although we have probably always had boundaries.

When the first Man grunted to the other, he must have wondered what metaphor he was supposed to use.

Not sure whether to like this video, or metaphor it.

the bio is almost word for word the Wikipedia article

Good grief. Why would you admit you thought the sun is a planet!!!!

You protray a Frost that never existed....He was a horrible and jealous man. But a great poet

A typical professor. Saw, saw, and saw.

This is entirely unwatchable!

Please do not make any more public presentations until you eliminate your crude, distracting and annoying lip smacking. Ruins the presentation and is certainly correctable like any bad habit.