Question

Robert frost once said a poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.What delights does this poem begin with and what wisdom does it end with? Give example to justify your answer.

Answer 1

Robert Frost in a foreword to his Collected Poems (1939) wrote: a poem “begin in delight and ends in wisdom”. This terse statement is often misinterpreted to signify a view that the majority of the poem is enjoyable and the last few lines filled with the moral.

Answer 2

Robert Frost in a foreword to his Collected Poems (1939) wrote: a poem “begin in delight and ends in wisdom”. ... But frost himself had a different interpretation: It [a poem] begins in delight, it inclines to the impulse, it assumes direction with the first line laid down.