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A BOY’S WILL
By Robert Frost Contents
Expanded Contents In Neglect Ghost House My November Guest Love and a Question A Late Walk Stars Storm Fear In Equal Sacrifice Wind and Window Flower The Tuft of Flowers To the Thawing Wind (audio) A Prayer in Spring Flower-gathering Rose Pogonias Asking for Roses Waiting Afield at Dusk In a Vale A Dream Pang Now Close the Windows A Line-storm Song October My Butterfly Reluctance Spoils of the Dead Pan with Us The Demiurge’s Laugh The Vantage Point Mowing Going for Water Revelation The Trial by Existence
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A Boy’s Will, by Robert Frost
Expanded Contents
Part I Into My Own The youth is
persuaded
that he will be rather more than less himself for having
forsworn
the world. Ghost House He is happy in society of his
choosing.
My
November
Guest He is in love with being
misunderstood.
Love and a
Question
He is in doubt whether to admit real trouble to a place
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A Boy’s Will, by Robert Frost
beside the hearth
with love.
A Late Walk He
courts the autumnal mood.
Stars There Storm Fear He is Out of To the He A He
is no oversight of human affairs.
afraid of his own isolation.
Wind Flower and Window
the winter things he fashions a story of modern love.
Thawing Wind (audio)
calls on change through the violence of the elements.
Prayer in Spring
discovers that the greatness of love lies not in forward-looking
thoughts;
Flower-gathering
nor yet Rose
in any spur it may be to ambition.
Pogonias
He is Asking nor He
no dissenter from the ritualism of nature;
for Roses
from the ritualism of youth which is make-believe.
Waiting—Afield at Dusk
arrives at the turn of the year.
In a Vale Out of A
old longings he fashions a story.
Dream Pang
He is In Neglect He is The And Mowing He Going Part II
shown by a dream how really well it is with him.
scornful of folk his scorn cannot reach.
Vantage Point
again scornful, but there is no one hurt.
takes up life simply with the small tasks.
for Water
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A Boy’s Will, by Robert Frost
Revelation
He is no The
resolves to become intelligible, at least to himself, since there
help else;
Trial by Existence
and In
know definitely what he thinks about the soul;
to
Equal Sacrifice
about love; The
Tuft of Flowers
about
fellowship;
Spoils
of the Dead
about death; Pan with Us about
art (his own);
The
Demiurge’s Laugh
about science. Part III NowWindows Close the It is A
time to make an end of speaking.
Line-storm Song
It is the October He were. My Butterfly There
autumnal mood with a difference.
sees days slipping from him that were the best for what they
are things that can never be the same.
Reluctance
Into My Own
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Love and a Question My November Guest
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Storm Fear
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A Late Walk
Stars
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A Prayer in Spring
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Wind and Window Flower
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Asking for Roses
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Flower-gathering
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A Dream Pang
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Waiting Afield at Dusk In a Vale
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Mowing
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The Vantage Point In Neglect
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The Trial by Existence Revelation
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Going for Water
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In Equal Sacrifice
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Now Close the Windows The Demiurge’s Laugh
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Pan with Us
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A Line-storm Song October
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Reluctance
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