Friday, January 3, 2003

One Step Backward Taken Comments

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Not only sands and gravels
Were once more on their travels,
But gulping muddy gallons
Great boulders off their balance
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Robert Frost
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Andrew Hoellering 29 December 2009

This sounds like a step in time, and in the right direction. The poem is surely a metaphor for standing back and not following the crowd. The ‘one step backward taken’ is significant. Discretion may be the better part of valour, but it may look like cowardice to those hell-bent on fashionable disaster.

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J Q 03 April 2008

This is a great poem that can be understood if you open your mind

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