by

Robert Lee Frost

A Boy s Will is Robert Frost s first full volume of poetry. Issued when Frost was approaching forty, it established his reputation and created a revolution in American poetry. With this publication, Frost became an established poet. He later became the major American poet of the twentieth century.

A Boy s Will is characteristic of Frost s ability to conjure photographically clear physical images while ruminating on the complexities of the human condition, its frailties and strengths, and its temporal state, like that of his beloved New England landscape. (Summary by Becky Miller) 

Contents:
Part I
1. Into My Own
2. Ghost House
3. My November Guest
4. Love and a Question
5. A Late Walk
6. Stars
7. Storm Fear
8. Wind and Window Flower
9. To the Thawing Wind
10. A Prayer in Spring
11. Flower-gathering
12. Rose Pogonias
13. Asking for Roses
14. Waiting Afield at Dusk
15. In a Vale
16. A Dream Pang
17. In Neglect
18. The Vantage Point
19. Mowing
20. Going for Water

Part II
21. Revelation
22. The Trial by Existence
23. In Equal Sacrifice
24. The Tuft of Flowers
25. Spoils of the Dead
26. Pan with Us
27. The Demiurge s Laugh

Part III
28. Now Close the Windows
29. A Line-storm Song
30. October
31. My Butterfly
32. Reluctance

 Read by Becky Miller

Approx. running time: 50 mins