| Show Noted V Writer Verse Writer Wins Applause With Poems Tales Devoid of political raillery and peace propaganda the speech which Mr Robert Lee Frost delivered Tuesday evening in Kingsbury hall of refreshing Ne N p w V 0 England anecdotes anecdotes ane c- c 1 dotes and poetic phi 1 0 s 0 1 11 i zi z- z i ing n g g. g Americas loved best-loved poet spoke as the last number on the 1939 40 master masterminds masterminds masterminds minds and artists series Mr Fro Frosts Frost's s t s shrewd wit won rounds of applause applause applause ap ap- ap- ap from the capacity a a. audience audi audi- u d i ence which attended attended attended at at- tended his lecture lecture lec lec- ture previously e entitled n tit 1 e d The Poets Poet's Outlook on bit L Life e. e He interspersed inter inter- a e r sed sly thrusts at edu edu- I principles with occasional slanderous comm comments against Philosophers phil phil- His con confession that he never dared be radical when young for fear it would make him conservative conservative conservative conserva conserva- tive when old brought a burst of laughter After defining the art o of writing as learning how to have something to say the New Englander stressed the importance of metaphors in ineffective ineffective ineffective effective conversation He then took occasion to decry the undergraduate undergraduate undergraduate under under- graduate who can tell you all he knows in the order in which he learned it The highlights of the entire lecture lecture lecture lec lec- ture were Mr Frosts Frost's readings of one or his own shorter poems which are largely about New England England England Eng Eng- land farm fann folk Among them were The Woodchuck Fire and Ice and The Road Not Taken I |
