![]() ![]() Even when ultimately – as here – he has complex and profound issues to discuss, he invites us in and we follow trustingly. There is a clear connection to Frost’s idea of a poem as a “clarification of life a momentary stay against confusion” (‘’The Figure a Poem Makes’).įrost does not do rebarbative. Yet all these break down at some point and it this awareness that education ought to provide us with. So we must live by crediting metaphors of self, love, art, nation and deity, among others. In the essay, Frost argues that nothing (other than mathematics)is known in itself – our knowledge is only via relations. Frost also separately printed an extract from the conclusion of the essay under the title ‘The Four Beliefs’. It was subsequently revised for publication in the Amherst Graduates’ Quarterly (1931). This was originally a talk delivered at Amherst College. As both teacher and poet, I wanted to explore Frost’s often teasing pronouncements and here I want to do the same with his longer essay, ‘Education by Poetry’. An earlier post in which I talked my way through Frost’s essay ‘The Figure a Poem Makes’ has proved to be one of my most visited pieces. ![]()
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