May 13, 2024 -
Aaron Morey
For example, today I learned from an untitled 1937 Robert Frost poem that Abercrombie and Fitch did not get their start as an edgy early 1990s mall-fashion store.
May 3, 2024 -
Aaron Morey
Am I reading my own inner Distributist into Frost here, or is there an implicit criticism of the owner of the woods? (I’m calling the viewpoint character Robert Frost, yes, persona, etc., but I’ve got to call him something) “Whose wo
March 31, 2024 -
Aaron Morey
In Robert Frost’s Steeple Bush there are two poems about stumbling upon the long-undisturbed home of an ancient native person; “To An Ancient” and “A Cliff Dwelling.” The second, in particular is an almost exact description of the scene f
March 23, 2024 -
Aaron Morey
Something interesting I just noticed on Wikipedia (let me stop you right there, yes, I know, but if I didn’t post comments about something I found in Wikipedia, I’d barely post here at all): Robert Frost, born 1874, has the middle name Lee.
March 12, 2024 -
Aaron Morey
The Poems Ancient and Modern substack had a good post that put into words something I have vaguely thought but not
December 25, 2023 -
Aaron Morey
Tonight in his Christmas vigil homily, our pastor referenced Robert Frost’s Death of the Hired Man: “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” I didn’t fully catch his point, I was wrestling a squirrel
July 21, 2023 -
Aaron Morey
I’ve started reading a Yeats collection and I have to say in not digging it. I’m only a dozen or so poems in, so maybe it’s arranged chronologically and he hasn’t come into his full power yet. But it’s helping solidify what I struggle with
May 30, 2022 -
Aaron Morey
I’m reading The Library of America’s Robert Frost collection. The poetry section is ordered chronologically by publication date of the books the poems were collected in. I just finished A Boy’s Will, which is (as strange as this sounds to