The Vantage Point by Robert Frost

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend April 4, 2015   The Vantage Point   Robert Frost

If tired of trees I seek again mankind,     Well I know where to hie me—in the dawn,     To a slope where the cattle keep the lawn. There amid lolling juniper reclined, Myself unseen, I see in white defined     Far off the homes of men, and farther still     The graves of men on an opposing hill, Living or dead, whichever are to mind.   And if by noon I have too much of these,     I have but to turn on my arm, and lo,     The sunburned hillside sets my face aglow, My breathing shakes the bluet like a breeze,     I smell the earth, I smell the bruisèd plant,     I look into the crater of the ant.            This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   “The Vantage Point” was published in Frost’s debut collection of poems, A Boy’s Will (H. Holt and Company, 1915).   Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, California. He received the Pulitzer Prize four times and read at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. Some of his collections include Mountain Interval (1916), A Further Range (1936), and A Witness Tree (1942). Frost lived and taught for many years in Massachusetts and Vermont, and died in Boston on January 29, 1963.   Poetry by Robert Frost   The Poetry of Robert Frost (Holt Paperbacks, 2002) "Vision" by Robert Penn Warren "Juan Higera Creek" by Robinson Jeffers "The Prairie Town" by Helen Santmyer Read This Poem   For National Poetry Month, we’ve teamed up with 826 National to produce Read This Poem, a celebration of poets in cities with 826 chapters. Read this week’s featured poems by poets from Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038