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Robert Frost |
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Some of Our Favorite Poems |
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"What Fifty Said
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By: Robert Frost
When I was young my teachers were the old.
I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
I suffered like a metal being cast.
I went to school to age to learn the past.
Now I am old my teachers are the young.
What can't be molded must be cracked and sprung.
I strain at lessons fit to start a suture.
I go to school to youth to learn the future.
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Photo credit: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph collection, Library of Congress |
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This poem was written by Robert Frost in 1928. It struck my because of its resemblance to my life thus far and also predicts my future. In the opening line of the poem Frost wrote, �When I was young my teachers were the old� which seems so true to my life. When I was young and going to school the teachers that I had for class seemed so old and out of touch with kids. Frost goes on with his poem relating how students spend their time in school learning about the past when he wrote �I went to school to age and learn the past.� As I was going through school, with each new level of education I was older and more experienced than the year before. With each passing year, the information that I learned was based upon theories, ideas and experiences from the past because the future is unknown.
The second part of the poem focuses on my future as an educator. Frost wrote �Now I am old my teachers are the young� which indicates that he has moved on with his life and is experiencing life from the opposite point of view. Now that I am becoming a teacher I have a new understanding for this poem. You can learn a lot from the youth if you take the time and observe. Frost recognized this and wrote in the last sentence, �I go to school to youth to learn the future.�
I thought that this poem represented the learning process and told a story of how it feels to progress from student to teacher. As I become a teacher this poem becomes very personal because I will experience the same things that Frost wrote about.
Chosen by: Nicole Edens |
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Biography of Robert Frost |
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Achievements and Accomplishments |
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Timeline - Tying it all Together |
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Our Interview with Frost! |
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Frost in Franconia, N. H. 1915
Photo Credit: Jones Library, Amherst |
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