Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with him. At first, I was reading a lot of the poems and thinking, This is dumb.

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.

“On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in his new Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry ... Of the creed’s manifold meaning, the double meaning most ...

I mean, what kids - my four grandchildren ... LIMBONG: Jay Parini is a poet, novelist and Robert Frost biographer. Thank you so much for your time. PARINI: Thank you, Andrew.

I mean, what kids - my four grandchildren like nothing ... than in the other poems in the book "New Hampshire." LIMBONG: Jay Parini is a poet, novelist and Robert Frost biographer. Thank you so much ...