The New York Times Book Review gave this quote "new poem after new poem makes clear how deeply each Frost poem bears on all Frost poems, and how surely all are a constant symbol of his life's commitment to making metaphors that clarify the dark paradoxes they contain. Probably the most famous quote was given by President Kennedy "his death impoverishes us all; but he has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding. ... Other poems followed about the Civil War. An example of one would be a poem called Beat! ... It is ...

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From this, later in his life he will write the poem "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking". This poem tells about his boyhood on the Long Island shore and how was his desire to be a poet. ... There Whitman published a version of his New Orleans poem called "Once I Pass'd Through a Populous city". This poem recounts a romance with a woman. ... This become the most famous frontispiece in literary history. ...

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"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."1 Therefore, it makes sense that if mortals cannot bear the darkness, they [should not] not go there. If man dislikes "black night and yawning chasms,"2 then should he not even...

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