All 5 Uses of
Robert Frost
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
- And Owen made me read the poems of Robert Frost aloud to him—"IN MY VOICE, THEY DON'T SOUND SO GOOD."†
p. 330..6
- When I'd get bored, Owen would quote me a little Robert Frost.†
p. 331..7 *
- But after that Christmas he often carried it with him, and I knew it was important to him because he kept it by his bed, on his night table, right next to his copies of Robert Frost's poems and under the guardianship of my mother's dressmaker's dummy.†
p. 340..4
- When our old friend Robert Frost tried to read his inaugural poem, Owen became most upset; maybe it was the wind, maybe Frost's eyes were tearing in the cold, or else it was the glare from the sun, or simply that the old man's eyesight was failing—whatever, he looked very feeble and he couldn't read his poem properly.†
p. 340..9
- Owen tried to prompt him, but Robert Frost could not hear The Voice—not all the way from Gravesend.†
p. 341..3
Definition:
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(Robert Frost) U.S. poet considered by many to be the greatest of the 20th century; famous for lyrical poems set in rural New England such as The Road Not Taken (1874-1963)