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Poem lyrics of What Fifty Said 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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Anna Yin

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anna · Site Admin 注册时间: 2004-05-02 帖子: 7141

Immigrants

Poem lyrics of Immigrants by Robert Frost.

No ship of all that under sail or steam
Have gathered people to us more and more
But Pilgrim-manned the Mayflower in a dream
Has been her anxious convoy in to shore.
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
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anna · Site Admin 注册时间: 2004-05-02 帖子: 7141

Love And A Question
Poem lyrics of Love And A Question by Robert Frost.
A stranger came to the door at eve,
And he spoke the bridegroom fair.
He bore a green-white stick in his hand,
And, for all burden, care.
He asked with the eyes more than the lips
For a shelter for the night,
And he turned and looked at the road afar
Without a window light.

The bridegroom came forth into the porch
With, 'Let us look at the sky,
And question what of the night to be,
Stranger, you and I.'
The woodbine leaves littered the yard,
The woodbine berries were blue,
Autumn, yes, winter was in the wind;
'Stranger, I wish I knew.'

Within, the bride in the dusk alone
Bent over the open fire,
Her face rose-red with the glowing coal
And the thought of the heart's desire.

The bridegroom looked at the weary road,
Yet saw but her within,
And wished her heart in a case of gold
And pinned with a silver pin.

The bridegroom thought it little to give
A dole of bread, a purse,
A heartfelt prayer for the poor of God,
Or for the rich a curse;

But whether or not a man was asked
To mar the love of two
By harboring woe in the bridal house,
The bridegroom wished he knew.
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

anna · Site Admin 注册时间: 2004-05-02 帖子: 7141

I love the wisdom and humor inside.
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

ericcoliu · 发表于: 星期二六月 26, 2007 4:58 pm 发表主题:

In his poem, Immigrants, Frost immortalizes the Pilgrims coming on the Mayflower into mythic voyagers, and suggests the arrival of the Mayflower as an archetypal model of subsequent waves of immigrants, marking both the end of a certain hardship and the beginning of a new dream.

The United States has always been a nation of immigrants beginning with those who came on the Mayflower. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” is the message on the Statue of Liberty. Oftentimes dreams of streets paved with gold became the reality of New York’s Lower East Side, the California Barrio, or Chinatown--gateways to success, or of adjusting to new ways of making a life and a living.

By the way, the pioneers coming on the Mayflower were legal immigrants or illegal aliens?
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anna · Site Admin 注册时间: 2004-05-02 帖子: 7141

The ship was the bridge or gate for Immigrants to go to New York.

Yet some were legal, some not. A lot of them needed to pass the medical check, if failed, they were forced to go back.

Today there is a project there for people to trace back their roots...since a lot of Immigrants have records there...

I heard from radio, not sure if it is the same place.
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

不清 · 发表于: 星期四六月 28, 2007 10:05 pm 发表主题:

I don't know the Mayflower history... found this website... http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/

Gotta study a bit before I can make a comment.

Frost's Immigrants expresses a sense of unknown. Sometimes, a short poems can create a lot of imagination. But not all the time.
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ericcoliu · 发表于: 星期五六月 29, 2007 3:20 pm 发表主题:

The question regarding the legal status of the pioneers coming on the Mayflower is a mocking statement I tries to make in light of the heated debate on immigration in America, which has spun in the most ugly and divisive ways. I believe if Robert Frost could come back to life, he would ask the same question as I did:
Were the pioneers coming on the Mayflower legal or illegal aliens?
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