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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN UNSTAMPED LETTER IN OUR RURAL LETTER BOX, by ROBERT FROST Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night your watchdog barked all night Last Line: To say as much as I wrote you this Subject(s): Letters | |||
Last nIght your watchdog barked all nIght So once you lose and ht the hght. I t wasn't someone at your locks. N 0, In your rUI al letter box I leave thIs note without a stamp To tell you it was Just a tramp Who used your pasture for a camp. There pOInted hke the pIp of spades The young spruce made a suite of glades So regular that In the dark The place was like a city park. There I elected to demur Beneath a low-slung Juniper Tha t lIke a blanket to my chin Kept some dew out and some heat in, Yet left nle freely face to face All night with universal space. It may have been at two o'clock That under me a point of rock Developed in the grass and fern, And as I woke afraid to tum Or so much as uncross my feet, Lest having wasted precIOus heat I never should again be warmed, The largest firedrop ever formed From two stars' haVIng coalesced Went streaking molten down the west. And then your tranlp astrologer From seeing tIus undoubted stir In Heaven's firm-set firmament, HImself had the equivalent, Only wIthIn. Inside the brain Two memories that long had lam, Now qUIvered toward each other, lIpped Together, and together slIpped, And for a moment all was plain That men have thought about in vain. Please, nly involuntary host, Forgive me if I seem to boast. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVE LETTER FROM AN IMPOSSIBLE LAND by WILLIAM MEREDITH ALL SHE WROTE by HARRYETTE MULLEN LETTER TO MAXINE SULLIVAN by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO SAM HAMILL: 1 by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 1 by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 2 by HAYDEN CARRUTH LETTER TO MOTHER by JOHN CIARDI |
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