Word: soul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frost's poetry offers a continual, often contradictory questioning of, mulling over, joking about, Frost's (and man's) place in the world and what can or cannot be known (and done) about it. Heroic pronouncements, grandiose, soul-satisfying finalities, were not his style. "There may be much or little beyond the grave." he wrote. "But the strong are saying nothing until they see." Survival for the individual, he felt, was a difficult job. a thing to be handled alone and with prudence. If he himself, like the woodchuck, lasts...
...which safeguard the most precious of all human rights--the right to control and govern ourselves at home--the right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness--then may we ask, "For what is a man profiteth if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul...
...state that loses the right to exercise exclusive jurisdiction over its own local affairs, loses its political soul, and its citizens have lost their most valuable freedom...
...than it used to be; the farther south the more certain the weather; and the jet plane has brought the islands within easy reach. The winter vacation, once a plutocrat's privilege, has become a fringe benefit for Everyman, who is discovering that there is nothing quite so soul-satisfying as toasting in the sunshine while one's friends and relations are shivering in the sleet...
...says he, "surely that is something at my window lattice." Open then he flings the shutter, and with many a flirt and flutter, in there steps a stately raven of the saintly days of yore. "Prophet!" says he, "thing of evil! Prophet still, if bird or devil! Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, it shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore!" Quoth the raven...