SP221 Robert Frost: A Life in Poetry

with Woody River
Code: SP221Time: 19.00-21.00Length: 5 weeksStarts: 1 MarDay: TuesdayCost: £60.00Venue: Avanti School

With a career spanning nearly fifty years, Robert Frost is one of America’s best-loved poets.
His poetry is often written in simple meters with regular rhyme schemes, and most of us will
probably be familiar with at least one of his poems, either ‘The Road not Taken’ or ‘Stopping
by Woods on a Snowy Evening’. Both poems are set in the woodlands of New England, but is
there more to Robert Frost than being a traditional poet who loved nature?

Week 1: Rural Life
Mending Wall (1914)
Birches (1916)
A selection of secondary texts as discussion extracts

Week 2: The Nature of Home
The Death of a Hired Man (1914)
Home Burial (1914)
A selection of secondary texts as discussion extracts

Week 3: Man’s Isolation
The Wood-Pile (1914)
Out, Out— (1916)
A selection of secondary texts as discussion extracts

Week 4: Women and Wildness
Paul’s Wife (1923)
The Witch of Coos (1923)
A selection of secondary texts as discussion extracts

Week 5: Man’s Relationship with Nature
Two Look at Two (1923)
The White-Tailed Hornet (1936)
A selection of secondary texts as discussion extracts