Robert Frost interview + poetry reading (1952)

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Featuring Robert Frost at his home in Ripton, Vermont, this 1952 program opens out in the fields with the poet feeding his horses, then moves to his living room where he proceeds to discuss topics spanning his long and fruitful career.
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Frost tells of his boyhood in San Francisco and his father’s participation in local politics; his family’s move to New England when he was still a boy, following his father’s death; the poet’s own political views, including his mixed opinions about Republicans; the importance of adversity in the development of art forms; his belief that poetry will likely always suffer from neglect; and his dim view of foundations supporting and rushing to the rescue of art, potentially rendering art a by-product. Frost also reads two of his poems: “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “The Drumlin Woodchuck.”
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@ManufacturingIntellect 4 жыл бұрын

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@GordyThomas 3 жыл бұрын

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@edwinishaan1882 2 жыл бұрын

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@shrinkingviolet3 Жыл бұрын

He was a stellar poet. He could start a poem all sweet and rosy, then it can turn so serious that the floor opens up underneath you. Just love reading his work.

@AustinJamesHaines 7 ай бұрын

So true!!

@rjjeffreys 7 ай бұрын

Thank so so very much for posting this interview. Robert Frost has been an inspiration for my own poetry writing since childhood.

@fredmichaels418 4 жыл бұрын

Where else, but this venue called KZfaq, and channels such as this , could one actually hear something as wondrous as Frost reciting his own " Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" ? Marvelous !

@maverik15j 2 жыл бұрын

The best the Internet has to offer.

@donnacsuti4980 Жыл бұрын

Totally agree

@jesusrios9482 Жыл бұрын

Hauntingly marvelous.

@daniellager8360 Жыл бұрын

Apparently on NBC in 1952. Can you imagine network television creating and airing something like this today?

@WJV9 5 ай бұрын

@@daniellager8360 - Or the program "On the Road" with Charles Kuralt was aired on CBS for a few years back in the late 1960's

@teebbeeis Жыл бұрын

I think people forget how fiercely intelligent man Frost was. His works were deceptively simple upfront but with immense depths. That apparent approachability can only be achieved by a master.

@jeffsmith1798 3 жыл бұрын

“There’s a whole half of our lives that can’t be made a science of, can’t ever be made a science of.” Wise words. Perhaps this is one of the reasons we need poets.

@kltanisha 2 жыл бұрын

Very much relevant today too. He was ahead of his time.

@donnacsuti4980 Жыл бұрын

As a scientist I totally agree. This is why I love writers and poets and theater.etc we must always be thinking and assessing if we are really taking the best path, because science outcomes depend on the question asked and researched, so if the question asked is the wrong one tha answer will be useless or.possibly even wrong.

@user-gu7wy3qj9x 2 ай бұрын

''We are made of the same matter that dreams are made of''....

@jeffsmith1798 2 ай бұрын

@@donnacsuti4980 very true. Your comment reminds me of a quotation attributed to Voltaire ‘Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers’.

@jeffsmith1798 2 ай бұрын

@@user-gu7wy3qj9x 😌

@gregkotoch2765 3 жыл бұрын

This is the most satisfying interview I've ever listened to. It quieted my soul.

@gianteed9547 3 жыл бұрын

Yup. this man is word porn in the finest form .

@ashlynsmusic2468 Жыл бұрын

I just discovered Robert Frost was my third cousin, three times removed, and having the opportunity to hear his words like this is really amazing and surreal. I’ve always read his poetry in school, but it’s nothing like hearing his own voice, and wow, to be of the same bloodline as him!

@AurelianKashmir 11 ай бұрын

That’s amazing. Thankyou for sharing

@ashlynsmusic2468 5 ай бұрын

@@-R0tt3n-Ic3crEam- maybe we are!

@archsys307 2 ай бұрын

That’s absolutely crazy. There’s probably tops 1000 third cousins of his around. People of the same ethnicity tend to be 9th-11th cousins, that’s like a 100m group size. So there was something of a 1000/100m = 1 in 100 thousand chance of being that close to Frost without other prior knowledge.

@ashlynsmusic2468 Ай бұрын

@@archsys307 thanks for the statistics! I thought having that relationship to him was a lot more common!

@C.Hawkshaw 2 жыл бұрын

The way he speaks is so poetic that sometimes it’s hard to tell if he’s reciting a poem or speaking in prose.

@joegarza7065 Жыл бұрын

It is what makes the Man, the principal of the land, he was so full of words , words you could never ignore.

@simerlyisaac423 3 жыл бұрын

Robert Frost was the embodiment of Man from the time he resided in. Friendly, Polite, Truthful, Blunt, and full of past mistakes. I’m 26 years old, and every time I hear and see Robert I’m immediately reminded of my Grandfather and the Grandfathers of my friends.

@jedanderson8172 3 жыл бұрын

This is fantastic. Imagine NBC, 70 years later, trying to air something like this today. It would never happen. You can see here the tail end of the once robust print culture that dominated America.

@mariehatton6268 3 жыл бұрын

Yes the life of the mind.

@Watchingvideoslikeu 2 жыл бұрын

Instead it’s 6 season of “This is Us”, the Ellen Degeneres show, and your nightly news

@staringatthesun861 9 ай бұрын

It's true. Is there any popular following of a poet today? Is there any contemporary poet that is known to at least 50% of the American population? I don't believe so. How tragic.

@davidburke2697 2 жыл бұрын

I teach 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowing Evening' in my English classes in China. I can't wait to share parts of this interview with my students, especially his recital of said poem.

@donnacsuti4980 Жыл бұрын

I hope in today's China they allow you to show or play the whole interview.there is much wisdom in what is said here and it is universal to all human kind.

@davidburke2697 Жыл бұрын

@@donnacsuti4980 If you have VPN, you can watch the whole interview. Without VPN, I am not sure. In class, I only play Frost's recital of 'Stopping by Woods' because of time restraints.

@happyjack1598 3 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful gentleman.Relevant to 2020 and always

@wadmystin 2 жыл бұрын

When he said, “I'm not self-conscious enough”, I decided to watch this interview all over again. Aah, he's such a great poet. I'm too happy to find this video 😭🌷

@johnnylara8133 Ай бұрын

I wish to say thank you Mr Frost for the beauty of your mind its 72 years later and your alive today as you were in 1952 through your poetry...fascinating!

@anom3778 4 жыл бұрын

I've always wanted to hear a great man like this speak so intellectually. I am reminded of the writer and poet henry david Thoreau here. I love Thoreau and I always wondered what he could be like in person. After seeing mr frost here, I think I can expand my imagination a little more into the personas of these types of intellectuals. The kind that like to think and read and write. Not scientists, but men of much contemplation and deliberation. I wish I could grasp the knowledge and intellect of men like thomas jefferson. People think of scientists as smart, but being smart about a specific science is one thing, I enjoy when people can be smart about a variety of things. And I love when they can explain their thoughts to you as clearly as if you thought them yourself. I guess the point is I am very impressed with frost here.

@Fit_Philosopher Жыл бұрын

beautifully expressed

@lacymacdougall9660 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite Robert Frost poem Going For Water The well was dry beside the door, And so we went with pal and can Across the fields behind the house To see the brook if it still ran; Not loth to have excuse to go, Because the autumn eve was fair (Though chill), because the fields were ours, And by the brook our woods were there. We ran as if to meet the moon That slowly dawned behind the trees, The barren boughs without the leaves, Without the birds, without the breeze. But once within the wood, we paused Like gnomes that hid us from the moon, Ready to run to hiding new With laughter when she found us soon. Each laid on other a staying hand To listen ere we dared to look, And in the hush we joined to make We heard, we knew we heard the brook. A note as from a single place, A slender tinkling fall that made Now drops that floated on the pool Like pearls, and now a silver blade.

@C.Hawkshaw 2 жыл бұрын

Wow thank you, I’ve never seen that one before! Btw my grandmother’s name was MacDougall - hi cuz!

@lacymacdougall9660 2 жыл бұрын

🤝

@welshreaver 4 жыл бұрын

After watching this I feel like after having dug in shifting sands for years I finally found a hint of treasure Ive been searching for. An old photo brought to life.

@anubhav3308 5 ай бұрын

Stopping by woods on a snowy evening: Time stamp 5:25

@NEMO-NEMO 4 жыл бұрын

Courage. I don’t think I’ve heard that word mentioned a lot these days. Words like courage, honor, respect, they are not in the modern vocabulary. Maybe that’s what poetry does, it changes the air around us. It brings in a new breath, a moment of recollection. A change of heart.

@welshreaver 4 жыл бұрын

A heartfelt electricity and reverance.

@MrJibsIV 3 жыл бұрын

I really admire how eloquent these older interviews are.

@anom3778 4 жыл бұрын

Freedom lies in being bold

@user-mq9co4tl1w 2 жыл бұрын

Mr. Greg Kotch below commented: " This is the most satisfying interview I've ever listened to. It quieted my soul." I would like to echo this perfect statement. Wonderful man..very human. A thinking man whose thoughtful kindness and zest for life comes through. It reveals God's creation of man was not in vain as there is beauty to be found everywhere including listening to an older man speak of life. God bless.

@charlottebowers5485 Ай бұрын

You are right, he was very human, that is exactly why, objectively, factually, he was definitely not a wonderful example of our species. A wonderful poet indeed, but being a poet of beauty, and articulating the beauty of humanity, does not mean that one is a beautiful soul.

@user-mq9co4tl1w Ай бұрын

@@charlottebowers5485 True,..but it does not mean he does not have a good soul either...therefore I choose to not try to make such determinations...only God can do that. Instead I can only work with what we have and try to find the good, in terms of earthly means...and poetry especially good poetry seems to be a worthwhile contribution to the state of mankind rather than the bad and sinful actions of many...God bless.

@donnacsuti4980 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for making this video available. So full of wisdom of such a brilliant man. Loved hearing this interview

@sanatabassum1763 5 ай бұрын

One of my favourite poets in American Literature....especially his 'Home Burial', it is just exceptional 😊

@ajcardenas8691 9 күн бұрын

Yeah made me cry

@pratibhasingh7684 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing ! Thank you so much !

@isaacshultz8128 3 жыл бұрын

Seems like such a chill dude

@parthsharma9606 2 жыл бұрын

My first time seeing this video and I'm glad I found it!

@kennydawson265 3 жыл бұрын

Outstanding Excellence!!

@joeg7369 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for uploading!

@user-zc3do8vk4q 3 ай бұрын

The master,this man was a gift from God.His Stopping by Woods was the reason I got into poetry

@rajeshwarichauhan4257 2 ай бұрын

Thank u❤

@czarquetzal8344 2 жыл бұрын

I love delivering lectures on the poems of Robert Frost, my favorite poet.

@johnburman966 2 жыл бұрын

First and foremost he was a thinker, philosopher. I would have enjoyed just being with him. I am a loner because most people's concerns are so narrow, petty, especially the educated class. What do they feel when they look up into the sky........are they full of wonder.............I wonder?

@C.Hawkshaw 2 жыл бұрын

I know, the liberal education has been lost, in general, replaced by technological education. There’s no philosophy in a computer- although ironically I’m holding a 2x4 inch one in my hand, watching this 😁

@jerryanstey7058 2 жыл бұрын

Great interview and recitations !

@RiyasRiyas-td3uo 15 күн бұрын

റോബർട്ട്‌ ഫ്രോസ്റ്റ്, സ്കൂൾ കാലഘട്ടത്തിൽ പഠിച്ച കവിത ഇപ്പോഴും ഓർമയിലുണ്ട്

@brish_sen218 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the post.

@anuradhainamdar8967 4 жыл бұрын

I agree, thanks for the post.

@kesterkrueger8871 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for keeping this alive. *nods with respect*

@lindembergpereiradasilva3082 2 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite american poets ever. Watching him now gives sort of life to all his poems that I admire the most. :)

@gauravkandhalia8262 4 жыл бұрын

One and only the best of my life "In the woods"

@paulsvideopoems3099 4 жыл бұрын

I love his brand of rural poetry.

@md21656 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you ! I so appreciate your posts.

@marissaclaridge7627 Ай бұрын

Always my favourite poetxxx

@BlackStar-jo2pu 4 жыл бұрын

Let’s not forget this man.

@d.dy989 3 жыл бұрын

What a priceless channel!

@pinkcrystaltea3144 3 жыл бұрын

My god, I wish interviewers could be more like that one! Did he just recite Frost's poem back to him? I'm shook! He must be a fan. I feel like anyone who interviews anyone should be a fan too.

@user-ro1nl1xd8d 5 ай бұрын

How intimidating to interview Mr. Frost , he was prepared!

@Artminded9471 2 жыл бұрын

So beautiful✨

@JohnStark72 3 жыл бұрын

The poet of my home...

@caramason56 Жыл бұрын

Thank you ❤️

@angie8088 5 ай бұрын

Are there interviews this deep anymore? I love this.

@christophermorgan3261 3 жыл бұрын

Insightful conversation with Frost. His casual vernacular like "I'm telling ya". . love that rustic and he affected it and was it. Yes, an 'intellectual' but it's definitely not on his sleeve. He's one of those writers that unfortunately became secondary school "required reading". So, his fame, indeed his myth has messed with his posthumous reputation. "Stopping by Woods. . " for example. a indisputably great lyric, lot's of us memorized it at the High School level with reams of Emerson and Thoreau but there are many American poets that have written wonderful lyrics. Lyrics are the bread and butter of American Lit. We shouldn't let his fame overshadow everyone else.

@natalya6091 4 жыл бұрын

Perfect.Love this.Thank you.

@jerryhiggs7882 9 ай бұрын

Wonderful thks😊

@hannahwhite5567 2 ай бұрын

Beautiful poem my fav part is : the woods are lovely dark and deep

@mattpopemusic 2 жыл бұрын

There’s a whole half of our lives that can’t be made a science of, can’t ever be made a science of, and we're going to know more about that before we get through this period; that's what it'll be remembered for.” - The way he pauses after that as if to suggest that, having now spoken his theory out loud he's not entirely satisfied with it but must settle for the way he left it. If there's anything to give you the impression of a science which cannot record the things left unsaid, it's pauses such as these.

@barsdaghan4296 5 ай бұрын

Beautiful

@jerryanstey7058 2 жыл бұрын

God forbid if Mr Frost could see America and the world now ! (2022 ad.)

@donnacsuti4980 Жыл бұрын

Any wise scientist knows they do not and can not know everything. It's a continuous learning process, discovery of what we have gotten wrong and adjusting to the new accepted "truth" until we discover more and adjust again. Only fools think they are 100% sure of anything . It's a learning process and doing what you can with current knowledge while always trying to learn more. I love what he says about differences in people .

@nozaes10 Жыл бұрын

Great Man❤️❤️

@Alanoffer 2 жыл бұрын

So sad we don’t hear voices like this anymore ,

@paullilley3879 3 жыл бұрын

I came to Robert Frost by way of Edward Thomas & his wife Helen's memoir 'As it was, World without end'. May I recommend it to you all?!

@MONIENGLISHBD 2 жыл бұрын

Wow!

@rahitali2774 2 ай бұрын

The poet has passed away but his poems alive😭😥

@rahitali2774 2 ай бұрын

I came here through his poem *stopping by woods on a snowing evening* because tomorrow is my final board exam and I think this poem will come. I came here to check how Robert frost look like.

@marieevans6547 Жыл бұрын

I love ROBERT frost too

@marceolanepoetic 4 жыл бұрын

The best poems written in the English language are by Robert Frost.

@fabricio_santana 4 жыл бұрын

how does this only have 800 views and 3 comments?

@zundee4182 4 жыл бұрын

@ Fabrício, Just shows the current state of awareness of arts 😀

@vagbloom6380 4 жыл бұрын

Because we are living the age of school of resentment

@pavlov2 3 жыл бұрын

Because of misplaced music in the end. Totally out of place.

@Samantha1970 5 ай бұрын

When people ask you who you’d like to have dinner with well this is the closest I guess to that wish ❤

@starlinecustoms 2 жыл бұрын

17:00 mind blown.

@bmcc12 7 ай бұрын

My hero!

@derricknjiru3193 3 жыл бұрын

5:44 21:51 23:52

@shelleyharris9349 9 ай бұрын

Virtue, knowledge ☮️✝️🙌😇✌️🤓

@MahaMtman Жыл бұрын

Amazing find thank you KZfaq I am puzzled at one of the words in his first reply : "you are the first ________ ...?"

@Lazzyrus 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, what was that second song that played at the end? I've tried searching for the lyrics but nothing of that song came up. If anyone could help me then it would be nive. I have discovered that the song on 29:22 is called Don Juan by It's an Icicle but since then, all of their music have been wiped from streaming platforms and this is the only video to contain their music. I have only listened to their EP once and it was impressive. I wish I had archived it or something but I didn't. That timestamp for as long as God knows will be the only ever existence of their music being heard.

@sebastiandcruz4849 4 жыл бұрын

The CBSE Indian board schools included in the syllabus is a good step.

@ukrover5087 2 жыл бұрын

Great.my favourite poet after Wordsworth.

@gilbertrgonzales5984 Жыл бұрын

As OF 1930'S the generationi is changing fast, cybernets has to do with of the schools, Gilbert R, Gonzales,Viet Nam Veteran, Purple , Decorated, Ihav to read, the Desiderrata to calm down. When you have President who knows alot of Justice for all, freued explains on health,took the life away of a great family Y.

@ShakespeareCafe 2 жыл бұрын

University of Michigan appointed Robert Frost their first Fellow in Creative Arts.

@sonamsonamsherpa4845 4 жыл бұрын

👌👌👌

@benjamincrites3209 10 ай бұрын

Anyone know the poem quoted at 23:45?

@Bernardoantier 3 жыл бұрын

Lástima que sea tan corta

@trenta9163 2 жыл бұрын

Poli sanam

@kenekin3 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah! Yea. Yuhhssss

@truckerenoch8824 3 жыл бұрын

Spoiler alert: Frost wasn't equating "the road less traveled" with individualism. There were "2 paths" in the wood and although they appeared different, one was just as good and/or as bad as the other, but the point was: don't live in constant regret of "what _could_ have been" *if* I had taken the other road.

@scottrc5391 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly right. He said it was inspired by a friend who, no matter which path he took, would agonize over the decision forever after. Subtle, frequently misinterpreted poem.

@tomobedlam297 2 жыл бұрын

The joke has turned upon itself: The road not taken is the most trodden. As Yogi Berra said: "No one goes there any more: It's too crowded!"

@joejones9520 Жыл бұрын

I think it is about determinism and is subtly telling us that "choice" is an illusion.

@paulaeckendorf2311 3 жыл бұрын

My first poet i had to read in school and i. Can recognize. It inmy life

@Watchingvideoslikeu 2 жыл бұрын

I’m satisfied in the division of the spoils

@eduardovieira5286 4 ай бұрын

🙏🏆🌟

@ElijahAnthonyF 3 жыл бұрын

Could I use the audio clip of Robert reciting Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening for a short film project?

@ManufacturingIntellect 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, of course.

@MahaMtman Жыл бұрын

Sure, go ahead. Jon in Weldon California

@georgeanderson7499 11 ай бұрын

No wonder he lived such a long healthy life, tending that farm of his in Vermont.

@jeffsmith1284 3 жыл бұрын

@18:52

@abcrailticket843 2 жыл бұрын

Can you tell me name of interviewer?

@bellringer929 2 жыл бұрын

Badly wanted him to make some comments on road not taken poem...

@torgman 3 жыл бұрын

@8:44 What's an anticlaytonist?

@micaelat3734 3 жыл бұрын

... in the sense that there are no universal values. Therefore things are relative to your own perspective.

@torgman 3 жыл бұрын

@@micaelat3734 I understand what's an anti-platonist. I didn't understand his accent.

@billhaywood3503 Жыл бұрын

met him once

@darkasap1061 11 ай бұрын

In that era most of the TRUE REAL MEN were there in all of the world.....i wonder why this can't change the coming generation to become spiritual oriented rather they become more materialistic..,...but now after covid more more turning towards high spirituality.....