Whats your favourite Robert Frost poem?

Here's a dumb answer. When I was in high school our English teacher was the oldest teacher in the school. She had actual records of RF reciting poems and when he would say a dirty word she would lift the arm up and turn red.

The Road Not Taken has always been a favorite. Great stuff to use with ESL students, or any students, for that matter. It's a shame that so many kids today have their heads filled with rap and hiphop and don't realy know the power of pure poetry.

I've used "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening" for the same purpose. I find that Frost's poems provide a good guide to English rhythms and pronunciation.

Carl Sandberg can provide some pretty solid "Americanisms" in his work "The People, Yes."

The Road Not Taken

"The Road Not Taken." For most of my adult life I thought I'd taken the right road. Since it was "a road less traveled by," I often thought of Frost's poem. About two years ago, I sadly learned that I hadn't taken the right road after all, and " that has made all the difference."

I like Robert Louis Stevenson's The Swing. I know its for kids but it brings back such pleasant memories when I was young. I would recite it at the playground, on what else, a swing! I know you asked for a Robert Frost poem, but I couldn't help myself.

How do you like to go up in a swing,

Up in the air so blue?

Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing

Ever a child can do!

Up in the air and over the wall,

Till I can see so wide,

River and trees and cattle and all

Over the countryside--

Till I look down on the garden green,

Down on the roof so brown--

Up in the air I go flying again,

Up in the air and down!

I love "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening" because it reminds me of my home in Indiana.

It's great being out in the evening in a sleigh, blanket over your lap to keep you warm, and stopping just outside of a snowy wood. The peace and quiet are astounding, except for the falling of the snow.

I enjoy all of Robert Frost's poetry! I would be hard-pressed to select one or two! So I elect to reserve the option to declare them all as my favorite poems, from one of my many favorite poets!

Everybody has their opinion about Frost. I have visited his home in Illinois, collected most of his poetry. I am not impressed with any of his poems.

I don't remember the title, but the one that has "and miles to go before I sleep" is my fave, I used it in my program for my father's memorial service.