What’s So Special About Robert Frost’s Poetry?

What’s So Special About Robert Frost’s Poetry?

Zoom Video Conference | This program is completed

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9/23/2021-12/2/2021

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$30.00

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Note: This is a repeat of the popular course offered a year ago.

Robert Frost is sometimes called America’s greatest poet. This course will take up a cross-section of his work, much of which is familiar to us because Frost so often draws upon rural New England for its imagery. Frost says a lot about the human condition, and we’ll look at some of his most famous poems as well as some which are not as famous as we seek to answer the question posed by the course’s title.

Format: We’ll read a good deal of his poetry aloud, and we’ll discuss what his message is in each of the poems we consider. Perhaps we’ll be able to answer the question, and perhaps we won’t. Perhaps we’ll differ from one another as we try to answer the question. In the end, though, we’ll have a good look at some of Frost’s work, and hopefully we’ll enjoy it as we go.

Resources/Expenses: The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem, 1st ed. (1969) is available on Amazon from $2.17 and up. Jay Parini’s Robert Frost: A Life (1999) is recommended and is on Amazon in paperback for $19.95.

Lenore Piper Bunting is a retired attorney, who upon retirement began taking LLC classes. She has coordinated several different courses for LLC.

After practicing law in Providence for 39 years, Tom Gidley obtained an MA and Ph.D. degrees in English at the University of Rhode Island. He has taught at URI and Salve Regina University. Tom coordinated a previous LLC Frost course and a recent HP Lovecraft class.