Joseph Auciello
English teacher & department head
in public & private schools
Published journalist
on literature,
education, & politics
Four Classes
10:30 – 12:00
April 2, 9, 16, 23
Robert Frost cultivated a popular but misleading self-image reminiscent of maple syrup and pancakes. But, what brought him four Pulitzer Prizes, and what causes him to endure as a major poet, is his spare and unflinching vision of human life told with a distinctive use of American language within traditional forms. We will examine in detail Frost’s extraordinary achievement by reading selections from his first three books of poems to discover the roads he took and the difference it made.
Course Book:
Text: Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken And Other Poems, ed. David Orr.
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, $16) ISBN# 978-0-14-310739-2