Robert Frost's "Christmas Trees"

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🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Robert Frost, born March 26, 1874, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died January 29, 1963, Boston, Massachusetts), American poet who was much admired for his depictions of the rural life of New England, his command of American colloquial speech, and his realistic verse portraying ordinary people in everyday situations. -- Bio via Britannica.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Daily Poem. I'm David Kern, and today is Tuesday, December 1st, 2020.
0:08.0	And I am so glad to be back with you. I should apologize for the extended absence of this podcast.
0:14.1	I've been preparing, along with my wife, to open our bookstore. The bookstore is now open.
0:18.1	You can Google Goldberry Books if you'd like, check it out, but the bookstore
0:22.2	is now open and we are getting into a routine of the bookstore plus the other job, plus family,
0:27.7	plus all those things that are going on. And of course, it is the holiday season as well.
0:31.4	So I'm ready to get back at The Daily Poem, and I figured that I would start just bringing it
0:36.2	back on December 1st. So I've got a whole
0:38.7	month of poems planned out for you. Many of them, of course, are Advent, Christmas, and
0:44.7	winter themed in general, and then of course, some are chosen because there's a poet's birthday
0:49.3	or something significant is going on on the particular date, that sort of thing.
0:55.4	Today I wanted to do a little bit of both, because today's poem is absolutely winter-themed,
1:01.0	but it's also by one of my favorite poets, and by one of the great American poets, his name is
1:06.8	Robert Frost, who lived from 1874 to 1963.
1:10.9	He was, of course, the Poet Laureate of the United States for a while.
1:15.0	And, of course, as you've heard me mention here on the podcast,
1:18.1	he is the only poet to receive four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry.
1:21.9	It's just absolutely incredible.
1:24.0	He was the name of the Poet Laureate of Vermont
1:25.8	and also won the Congressional Gold medal in 1960 for his poetry.
1:29.9	And the poem that I'm going to read to you today is called Christmas Trees.
1:35.4	It's not one of his shorter ones, so I'll read it twice, but I'll probably keep my comments relatively to the point, really totally simple, maybe make a few observations,
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