Poet's Corner: The Sound of Trees by Robert Frost

I am trying to go through this collection of Robert Frost poems, but I'm just not feeling him (apart from the well-known ones). I think it shall go back to the library un-finished. But here's one.

The Sound of Trees by Robert Frost


I wonder about the trees.
Why do we wish to bear
Forever the noise of these
More than another noise
So close to our dwelling place?
We suffer them by the day
Till we lose all measure of pace,
And fixity in our joys,
And acquire a listening air.
They are that that talks of going
But never gets away;
And that talks no less for knowing,
As it grows wiser and older,
That now it means to stay.
My feet tug at the floor
And my head sways to my shoulder
Sometimes when I watch trees sway,
From the window or the door.
I shall set forth for somewhere,
I shall make the reckless choice
Some day when they are in voice
And tossing so as to scare
The white clouds over them on.
I shall have less to say,
But I shall be gone.

Book Bingo 2022: June

LGBTQ: Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green. This is a true crime book of a serial killer who targeted gay and bisexual men in the 1990s. It won an Edgar award and deservedly so. I read it in 48 hours (on the second day I stayed up until 4 am to finish it) it was such a gripping story told very well, and it made the victims seem like very real people. It included bits of queer history as the killer picked his victims up at a gay bar in NYC.

Collection/Anthology: Game Without Rules by Michael Gilbert [e-book]. A short story collection (the stories were originally published in the 1960's). I read about this on smallhobbit's Book Bingo. There are two old spies named Calder and Behrens and they continue to do missions. So it's as if Holmes and Watson had retired to Sussex but were Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy chaps and got pulled into cases still. Bits of it were dated but most of it was enjoyable. Would I read the other collection? Maybe if my TBR weren't so tall.

Fairy Tale or Fairy Tale Retelling: A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow [book]. This is YA, probably short enough to be considered a novella. I don't usually read YA so it was okay. A terminally ill modern Ohio teenager is obsessed with Sleeping Beauty and her best friend arranges a scene for her birthday and the girl pricks her finger on a spinning wheel and is transported to a fairy realm where she meets Sleeping Beauty and rescues ensue. Very meta and philosophical. A lot about living with a hereditary disease that is going to kill you.

Classic or Published before 1985: The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell [book, 1949]. This is a classic in comparative mythology. The author discusses his theory of the mythological structure of the journey of the archetypal hero found in world myths. Probably the densest book I've read in a long time. It compares so many mythologies from so many cultures, I couldn't help but wonder how the author kept them all in his head. But in terms of storytelling and arcs, very interesting. But it took me four months to read it, and I had to read some lines more than once to understand them.

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