Frost hid many things. He spent his winters in South Florida and actually owned orange groves, while casting himself in literature as the quintessential Yankee. Then there was the affair that presumably precipitated this poem.
"Never Again..." appears in the Lathem Collected Frost right after an astonishingly masculine poem called "The Most of It," in which a buck surges through a lake. Frost evidently meant to pair these powerful meditations on masculine and feminine archetypes, at a time when infatuation had stirred his imagination.
I'm impressed by Sharon's observations, but I would add one more. Look at the syntax. Isn't it interesting how the sentences move from complexity toward simplicity, until the final sentence becomes a fragment?
[This message has been edited by Alan Sullivan (edited 09-02-2000).]
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