Well...failed is a stronger word than even I would have used. The glimpse through the sheet of ice, and the dancing apples in the dream are really admirable (the latter could easily have seemed silly-- but Frost handles it so well it comes off). It is too bad about the woodchuck..."How much wood could a woodchuck chuck...?etc" Why not Groundhog?...Those are the guys you think of as sleepers.
But I don't think of it as a failure, so much as an approach that doesn't suit Frost very well...it's different for Frost-- which is why some people like it.
[This message has been edited by MacArthur (edited May 04, 2001).]
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