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...program sponsored by the Morris Gray Poetry Fund, Frost spoke at random about conversation ("My education") and metaphors ("My kind of foolin'"), and what science attempts to prove ("How she differs from what she's like...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Frost Chides Metaphors, MIT, Footnotes in Speech | 12/4/1956 | See Source »

...year-old poet said that one of his scientific friends claims "A true poet wouldn't say anything." As the audience of nearly 1,000 laughed, Frost softly added, "God bless the true poet...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Frost Chides Metaphors, MIT, Footnotes in Speech | 12/4/1956 | See Source »

...explain why he himself wrote, Frost cited a line in his The Tufts of Flowers, ". . . .from sheer morning gladness at the brim...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Frost Chides Metaphors, MIT, Footnotes in Speech | 12/4/1956 | See Source »

...Frost also read two short poems on California, a new work inspired by a walk at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and another about Gus, a stray dog who came to visit...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Frost Chides Metaphors, MIT, Footnotes in Speech | 12/4/1956 | See Source »

...Frost chided poets who write to make readers read learned footnotes. Chaucer and Shakespeare, he noted, did not use them. He considered his own metaphors relatively simple, but urged readers to hear more than the "vowels, the consonants, and the syllables...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Frost Chides Metaphors, MIT, Footnotes in Speech | 12/4/1956 | See Source »

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