The Gift Outright Comments

every gift comes with a price?

nice original thoughts... an ode to the land :)

i think this poem is pretty good, just like my cat turning into a poptart and flying around in space eating junk food

Robert Frost recited 'The Gift Outright' at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961. The right poem by the right poem at the right time.

In the beginning America was taken forgranted by its settlers. Americans at first considered themselves English colonials, and it was only when they became independent that they were able to take possession of their country and make it truly their own. This meant to explore, to cultivate, to farm, to make their land sing in history, poetry, story and in song. Frost as always does not shirk the unpleasantness involved, but the violent dispossession of Indian tribes and others is implied rather than stated outright.