Re: Winter Solstice


Subject: Re: Winter Solstice
From: James L Piat (piat@JUNO.COM)
Date: Thu Dec 23 1999 - 19:50:36 EST


Dear Rhonda, Robert and folks,

Rhonda, your comments have always struck me as interesting and heartfelt.
 And yes, sometimes -perish the thought- scholarly-- but never as bs or
pseudo anything.

Oh to have the gift the gennie gie us
To see ourselves as others see us

Robert thanks for the poem and best wishes as always.

Cheers to all,
Jim Piat

On Thu, 23 Dec 1999 03:26:04 PST Rhonda McDonnell
<rhonda_mcdonnell@HOTMAIL.COM> writes:
> According to one of my prof's, this was Frost's own favorite. I wish
> I
> could access Frost's own words on it. I think he said something
> along the
> lines that it needs to be published along with 10 pages of his own
> notes
> that follow it. I agree with David's assessment of suicidal nonsense
> completely, by the way, but I can't help but always sense an
> opaqueness to
> this poem and a depth I can't quite reach. Frost's work seems to me
> always
> to be about (in part) the boundaries that delineate the world, and
> the pull
> towards entropy that pushes those boundaries. "Stopping by the
> Woods" is no
> exception, I think. All psuedo-scholarly b.s. aside, what a lovely
> thought
> during an Arizona December.
>
> Holiday blessings to all.
>
> Rhonda McDonnell
>
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