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<[[Molly]]> Favour to ask: What can you tell me/find out about Robert Frost and predestination? If anything. It seems like something you might know. As in his poem The Road Less Travelled, because apparently it is often horribly misunderstood. As in, his choice of roads made no difference at all because of predestination. Thoughts? Thanks.
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<[[Brennen]]> Um, hrm.
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Well, there's [http://frost.freehosting.net/poems_road.htm this], where a guy named LawrenceThompson (who apparently knew Frost & traveled with him) argues that Frost was being ironic about an indecisive friend. I'm not sure what that says about predestination. Somewhere else in the google results I was just scrolling through, it claims that Frost's religious background was Calvinist...
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...but the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost Wikipedia article] has this:
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:Although he is most commonly associated with New England, Frost was born in San Francisco to Isabelle Moodie, of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland Scottish] birth, and William Prescott Frost, Jr., a descendant of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devonshire Devonshire] Frost who had sailed to New Hampshire in 1634. His father was a former teacher turned newspaper man, a hard drinker, a gambler, and a harsh disciplinarian, who fought to succeed in politics for as long as his health allowed.
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:Frost lived in California until he was 11. After the death of his father, he moved with his mother and sister to eastern Massachusetts near his paternal grandparents. His mother joined the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedenborgian Swedenborgian church] and had him baptized in it, but he left it as an adult.
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The Swedenborgians don't ''sound'' very big on strong predestination, though that's not to say his mom didn't have Calvinist or similar background.
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I can look around more; thing is, I really don't know much about Frost, and all I've really read of his poetry are the standard woods & snowy evenings & paths bits.
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<[[Molly]]> Thanks. That's pretty much what I found, too. I was ridiculously unsatisfied with wikipedia's results, however. But that's not really their fault.
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<[[Brennen]]> Love Library, maybe?
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AUTHOR Pack, Robert, 1929-
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TITLE Belief and uncertainty in the poetry of Robert Frost / Robert
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Pack.
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PUBLISHER Hanover [N.H.] : Middlebury College Press ; Lebanon, N.H. :
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University Press of New England, c2003.
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CALL # PS3511.R94 Z865 2003.
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<[[Molly]]> Ok. Thanks. You can stop now, I am fully satisfied with your researching capabilities. College has served you well. Cheers.
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<[[Brennen]]> I think I'd be better off with an associate's degree in automechanics, actually.
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<[[Molly]]> we all would.
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