Robert Frost Archives

Artistic representation of an open book with human faces on opposite pages staring in different directions, birds and cages representing metaphors.

While the poet's goal is to put imaginative notions into another person's head, ironists instead seek to change themselves.

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An Ironist Must Learn to Listen Poetically

April 24, 2023April 24, 2023 11 min read Nick Gall Pragmatism, Richard Rorty, Robert Frost

While the poet’s goal is to put imaginative notions into another person’s head, ironists instead seek to change themselves.

Two people stand opposite of each other where two split walls of different stone designs almost meet in the middle.

Poets, like pragmatists, possess a unique ability to sit with uncertainties, mysteries, and doubts. For them, neither walls nor metaphors are ever complete.

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On the Something There Is

April 17, 2023April 23, 2023 17 min read Rick Joines Henry David Thoreau, Pragmatism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Rorty, Robert Frost, William James

Poets, like pragmatists, possess a unique ability to sit with uncertainties and doubts. For them, neither walls nor metaphors are ever complete.