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Article: A FROST POEM FOR TODAY
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 16, 2006
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A NEW poem by Robert Frost has been found, a sign that sometimes a
poem finds its readers at just the right moment.
The discovery was made at the University of Virginia where Robert
Stilling, an English graduate student, was digging through a
collection of some of Frost's papers and rare editions. Stilling
found a letter referring to an unpublished poem that was handwritten
inside a copy of the book "North of Boston," a collection of Frost
poems. Stilling then located the book and, indeed, there was "War
Thoughts at Home."
In the poem, a woman sits at home on a late-winter afternoon. She
goes to the window because she has heard a "flurry of bird war." The
poem travels from her gaze to the ...