I prepared the following for the Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice. From Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall.” Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling…
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A Discernment: Frost or Stevens
To ask the question concerning he daemon is to seek an origin of inspiration. Whereas Robert Frost is possessed by an external daemon whose name is Loss, hence the power of Directive, Wallace Stevens undergoes…
Happy Holidays from Bobby Frost
Audio Recording of Robert Frost’s “Christmas Trees” by Doug Storm. Christmas Trees Robert Frost (1920) (A Christmas Circular Letter) The city had withdrawn into itself And left at last the country to the country; When between whirls…
Common Core State Standards: A Stuccoed Stratum of Obscurity
What follows are two pieces by Eric Sargent, an educator in the St. Louis area, and good friend to the Errant. Eric has written the below in response to the state of education but also…
The Epic of The Once-ler
In an age of too much, too fast, too late we have already shoved the Seussian idea of ecology into the recycle bin of useless messages. I would rage against this idiotic cotton candy confection–but…
I Sat Me Against A Tree
Robert Frost is likely well-known as one of our major poets and I would imagine that many grandparents recall a few of his poems. Many of you may even know several titles. But I’d hazard…