Seems like a good reading to me, Michael. I think the Frost poem is a really fine philosophical piece, as many of his poems are.
And John, if you believe Parmenides, who said that thought and being are the same, heck yeah, poetry and philosophy have a lot in common. Then again, what Parmenides meant by “thought” isn’t what post-Cartesian philosophy means by it. Poetic philosophy or philosophical poetry puts the mind back in the whole, even if the whole is broken. Much modern philosophy does the opposite:
A Fragment
Locke sank into a swoon;
The Garden died.
God took the spinning jenny
Out of his side.
Where got I that truth?
Out of a medium's mouth,
Out of nothing it came,
Out of the dark night where lay
The crowns of Nineveh.
--Yeats
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