Mountain Interval by Robert Frost

 

Do you enjoy reading poetry?  I haven’t read much poetry since college, but reading this collection made me think I need to pick up poetry again.

I read this collection of poetry in January for the What the Dickens Book Club on Facebook.  There was a great discussion about it last month. 

My thoughts on this collection:

·       I haven’t read any Robert Frost poem since my college days.  I either read his poems as individual poems or as part of a “complete collection.”  This was the first time I read them in a collection as they would have been published.  It was very interesting.

·       The collection includes one of my favorite poems, The Road Not Taken.

·       The poems give the reader a sense of place and time – that you are living on a farm in rural Vermont in the early twentieth century.

·       I especially liked the poem where a city guy tried to rip Frost off and buy one thousand pine trees for a total of $300.  This would only be three cents per tree!  It was interesting how Frost made this experience into a poem.

·       Poems are a nice length to read and think about before bed.  With all that is going on in the world, they were a good escapism read.

Overall, Mountain Interval by Robert Frost was an enjoyable poetry collection and I highly recommend it.

Book Source:  Purchased on my kindle from Amazon.com.