Very cliche
But I think Robert Frost will always be one of my favorite poets. I'd never read this poem of his before (found it on greatpoets ) but loved it after the first stanza.
Random personal babblings: not much going on in my life right now. Spring break drawing to a close and I have done little to no work. Feeling a grad school anxiety and lethargy I cannot pin down the precise source of....most likely orals dread...A melancholy poem was just what I needed:
Reluctance -- Robert Frost
Out through the fields and the woods
And over the walls I have wended;
I have climbed the hills of view
And looked at the world, and descended;
I have come by the highway home,
And lo, it is ended.
The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping
To ravel them one by one
And let them go scraping and creeping
Out over the crusted snow,
When others are sleeping.
And the dead leaves lie huddled and still,
No longer blown hither and thither;
The last long aster is gone;
The flowers of the witch-hazel wither;
The heart is still aching to seek,
But the feet question 'Whither?'
Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?
Random personal babblings: not much going on in my life right now. Spring break drawing to a close and I have done little to no work. Feeling a grad school anxiety and lethargy I cannot pin down the precise source of....most likely orals dread...A melancholy poem was just what I needed:
Reluctance -- Robert Frost
Out through the fields and the woods
And over the walls I have wended;
I have climbed the hills of view
And looked at the world, and descended;
I have come by the highway home,
And lo, it is ended.
The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping
To ravel them one by one
And let them go scraping and creeping
Out over the crusted snow,
When others are sleeping.
And the dead leaves lie huddled and still,
No longer blown hither and thither;
The last long aster is gone;
The flowers of the witch-hazel wither;
The heart is still aching to seek,
But the feet question 'Whither?'
Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?