A FROST POEM FOR TODAY

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: October 16, 2006 | Copyright information

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 Stilling found a letter referring to an unpublished poem that was handwritten inside a copy of the book "North of Boston," a collection of Frost poems.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 ...

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