Monday, January 13, 2003

The Cow In Apple-Time Comments

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Something inspires the only cow of late
To make no more of a wall than an open gate,
And think no more of wall-builders than fools.
Her face is flecked with pomace and she drools
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Robert Frost
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Helen Brusco 15 July 2018

I worked harvesting tobacco in the Connecticut valley one summer and often passed pastures with many cows, and being an admirer of the poet Robert Frost, found this poet very powerfully descriptive of the many country scenes we passed each day. I just love this poem.

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Jackie Wright 20 February 2018

This poem has compared to the delimma of Adam and Eve to, that of the cow. Anyone read this observation too?

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Tom Allport 21 December 2016

there is no stopping a cow when its mind is made up, apples or grass?

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Walterrean Salley 29 April 2012

Frost's observation of the lone cow unveils a day in the life of a drunken cow. Whatever the moral, he found it interesting. And we get to see what a drunk cow is like.

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Andrew Hoellering 21 July 2009

I'll give it another go! Frost is delighted by the cow's unpredictable behaviour -see his choice of the word 'inspires' in the first line. The animal is clearly behaving like a drunken fool, and part of Frost's delight is that such behaviour is not confined to humans. The sonnet is a celebration of the eccentric and unpredictable, whatever form it may take.

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Andrew Hoellering 28 May 2009

Where is the comment I wrote today on this poem? ?

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