It used to be on a sunny, sultry afternoon a long time prior to now, that I had my first acquaintance with Robert Frost……
It used to be summer vacation and we were on a consult with to our paternal grandmother’s dwelling. After lunch every person else used to be taking a siesta. As there used to be nothing else to attain I made up our minds to pay a consult with to the attic. There may perhaps well effectively be some used books there and I was planning to style a minute library at residence. I had already borrowed a minute shelf from Gargantuan ma and neatly arranged my Enid Blytons, Indrajal comics and a few used magazines on it. Additionally bought some abridged versions of Dickens ,Shakespeare, Cronin etc, which my senior cousins studied as their English textual issue material books .So a cherish hunt in these cob-webbed terrains of my ancestral dwelling may perhaps well lead to some of booty.
My search used to be fruitful. There used to be a pile of books in a corner lined in filth .Veteran texts, magazines and a few captivating sure books .Tales by Maxim Gorky,….effectively ,I even possess heard about him…… then Chekhov …. may perhaps well effectively be perfect …,after which a minute quantity of poetry with red tinted edges —A Pocket e book of Robert Frost’s poems ….for a nine One year used it used to be an exclusive title . I have to possess dropped it wait on into the pile had it no longer been for the photos—that e book used to be so beautifully illustrated .Though the poems didn’t style any sense to me at that age, the photos captured my imagination-tree lined avenues ,used chapels and homes , birds ,brooks and boulders.( That 1946 version used to be edited with commentaries by Louis Undermeyer and illustrated by john O’Hara Cosgrave ). I picked that e book moreover and made my manner wait on.
Aid at residence I noticed that the skim leaf of poems contained my father’s title and his college hostel deal with .Underneath that his three nephews had written their names and made their label of possession . I moreover promptly wrote my title beneath theirs, positioned it on the library shelf and simply forgot about it.
It used to be years later that I remembered the e book .We were doing “Stopping by woods on a snowy evening “ in class and our trainer requested us to attain a peep on Frost .By then I had bought a penchant for poetry. So I happily agreed to obtain the fundamental materials. On a Saturday afternoon,I hunted up that minute quantity from a high shelf and began to read –and purchased crooked for lifestyles !
From that day, a dose of Frost used to be my medication for all weathers .I would read and re-read and can licensed needless to bid “I had (supreme) a lover’s quarrel with the field(“the lesson for lately”).
Or it can maybe well pep me up licensed delight in
“The style a crow
Shook down on me
The filth of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my coronary heart
A switch of temper
And saved some phase
Of a day I had rued. “(Dirt Of Snow)
On a contemplative temper this can style me surprise “used to be one thing brushed across my ideas/that no-one on earth will ever get “
Cherish every perfect things, that short romance moreover ended. Forsaking books and poetry , going in the merciless actuality of the day -to -day lifestyles , balancing residence and a occupation were facts and figures and mathematical precision counted in resolution to poetical leanings ,my delight in for Frost bought shelved once more.
Some years wait on my brother who lives in Connecticut , rang me up to expose that he used to be coming for the ho
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