Word: frosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Frost held an audience of some 500 people in the New Lecture Hall for over an hour yesterday afternoon as the philosophized and then read some of his own works at the annual Morris Gray poetry lecture...
First developing his ideas on meaning and symbolism in poetry. Frost kept a ripple of laughter going through the audience as he loosed salty jibes at the new Deal in the course of the preliminary discussion. During this period, and throughout the later parts of his readings, he was constantly interrupted by the almost steady flow of latecomers and early leavers...
Characterizing all poetry, with the exception of blank verse, as a form of self-discipline from within and without. Frost explained how great were the obligations of a poet once he had started his work. "Once an initial rhyme is made," he said, "the poet cannot avoid continuing in the same style...
...Frost first read his "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Night" to illustrate the truth of this thesis, and from that point the readings went largely whenever the poet's fancy took him. "West Running Brook" and two shorter poems followed in order...
...Robert Frost, well-known American poet and honorary Ralph Waldo Emerson Fellow in poetry at Harvard, will give a reading of his own poems in New Lecture Hall at 4:30 o'clock today. The selections which he has chosen have not yet been announced...