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Title: The Poems of Robert Frost


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Unit 12
  • The Poems of Robert Frost

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Robert Frost loved nature. He lived in the
country much of his life.
  • nature U ???
  • much of ???

3
He liked to work outdoors. In fact, he was a
farmer for many years.
  • outdoors ???

4
He picked apples, plowed his fields, and cut down
trees.
  • A, B, and C
  • cut down ??

5
And he wrote poems. Most of them are about nature.
  • poem, poet, poetry
  • most of the N / most N ????

6
He wrote of cold, snowy night and warm spring
days. He wrote of his work on the farm.
  • write of sth ??
  • work vs. job

7
In the poem Gathering Leaves, Frost tells about
cleaning up fallen leaves in fall. The poem
starts
  • clear up sth ??
  • p.p. ?????

8
Spades take up leaves / No better than spoons, /
And bags full of leaves / Are light as balloons.
  • no better than
  • be full of ??

9
I make a great noise / Of rustling all day / Like
rabbit and deer / Running away.
  • rustle v.
  • deer (?????)

10
He must have enjoyed making all that noise.
  • enjoy N/Ving ??

11
Frost was a teacher, too. He taught his students
how to write poems.
  • how to V ???????
  • write poems ??

12
What should we write about? they would ask.
Write about something you know well, he said.
  • something ???

13
Good writing grows out of having something to
say. Frost had much to say.
  • out of ?
  • much ?????

14
He always wrote about his own life or things he
knew well.
  • or ???
  • ????????????

15
In The Minor Bird, he wrote about a bird whose
song must have bothered him
  • minor adj. ???
  • whose ????????????
  • must have p.p. ?? (??????)

16
I have wished a bird would fly away, / And not
sing by my house all day
  • wish ???????
  • all day ???

17
Have clapped my hands at him from the door / When
it seemed I could bear no more.
  • it seems (that) ?? ??
  • cannot bear/stand (it) anymore ??????

18
The fault must partly have been in me. / The bird
was not to blame for his key.
  • partly adv. ??
  • be to blame (for sth) ????
  • key n. ??

19
And of course there must be something wrong/ In
wanting to silence any song.
  • must ???????
  • in Ving ???

20
How that bird bothered him! But then Frost thinks
againmaybe it was his fault, not the birds.
  • how ??????
  • not ???

21
In The Pasture, Frost writes of farm jobs
cleaning leaves out of a spring and going to get
a calf.
  • write of sth ??

22
Im going out to clean the pasture spring / Ill
only stop to rake the leaves away /
  • stop to V vs. stop Ving

23
(and wait to watch the water clear, I may) / I
shant be gone long. /--you come too.
  • shant ???

24
Im going out to fetch the little calf / Thats
standing by the mother. Its so young /
  • fetch ???

25
It totters when she licks it with her tongue./ I
shant be gone long.You come too.
  • she ??????

26
Through his poems, Frost let his readers share
his world.
  • share ones world

27
He let us see what he saw he let us feel what he
felt.
  • what ???????

28
Perhaps thats why Frosts poems are loved by so
many.
  • Thats why/how/when ??
  • many ??????

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