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Article: Robert Frost: The Ethics of Ambiguity.(Book Review)
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- Christianity and Literature
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- September 22, 2003
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By John H. Timmerman. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8387-5532-1. Pp. 198. $39.50.
Worrying poets for their ethical convictions can be a full-time business, even if that activity in the era of post-postmodernity seems slightly quaint or anti-modern. The business becomes all the more labored the more the poet in various ways, poetically or biographically, seems intent on thwarting the intention of having ethics. And this was always the case with Robert Frost--or, at least, with the pose he preferred. The business of ethics-hunting is further complicated because it is regrettably the case that discussion of the poems' "ethical meanings" ...