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Because I think that that's the reason, I think that's actually the key question. Because it's the thing that confounds the critics is that what he does in taking his personal life.

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And you have to be careful because they're not all about his life. They're about his his he is making poetry and it's an art form so its not directly one to one. But what he does is that he takes and observes the ordinary people and then by his use his incredible technical craft he then turns that into art.

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And I think that's why he's an important poet. The thing that makes him exceptional exceptional and one of the reasons why he's criticized is he is using a very old form. Mainly realism. That I'm painting or I'm writing about what I see.

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But in painting and writing about what he sees he's providing all these depths through his command of the language. And that's that interesting play between what the surface and the depth again, I'll go back to the parents with the dreamy mother and the [[?]] engaged father always looking to the public life and the mother always looking inward. And this sense from Frost of combining those two things.

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Their work is play and play is work and the two of those things. And also the thing with Frost I go back again to his analogy or his comparison of himself with craftsmen. That for Frost the element of craft and technique and ability you know finely honed. He spent 40 years working at what he wanted to work at and what he wanted to be ambitious and succeed at and those years were not wasted.

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Its 40 years where he knew for however he did it and I don't know how genius works. But he knew what he wanted to do and he knew how he had to achieve it. And he spends those 40 years developing his abilities. And then when he is 39 he lets it out.

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The next 5 years he astonishes everyone by coming from nowhere. Outside of the establishment outside of Harvard, he's North of Boston, he is away form the literary circles, he's not somebody who's sucking up to the New York crisis. He's his own man. And that's the key to Frost, he's his own man. And he does it because of his tremendous sense of will and his sense of command over every instrument that he owns.

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And that's why he falls into this habit, this unfortunate habit of being.


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