I've Been Boring Lately

I've been living up to the promises about this blog that are in its desciption. More specifically, my blog has been rather boring lately. I've just been pretty busy for a while, and when you're busy you don't have time to think the sort of random thoughts that produce a decent blog. So it goes. (By the way, if you want to read a good blog, you should consider mikecope.blogspot.com).

Anyway, today's blog isn't really going to be any different. Since I haven't been taking the time to think in several of my recent blogs, I've put in poems or quotes that I thought were interesting. I'm going to do that again. The reason I've been busy recently has been because of a paper I'm writing for one of my classes. It's a close reading of one of Robert Frost's poems, a love poem written to his wife entitled "Meeting and Passing." I think it's a really pretty little poem. Here it is. If you have any ideas on it, pass them along. They'd be greatly appreciated. I might stick it in a graduate paper, and then I'll be able to blame you for my poor grade on the assignment. That'd be nice.


Meeting and Passing

As I went down the hill along the wall
There was a gate I had leaned at for the view
And had just turned from when I first saw you
As you came up the hill. We met. But all
We did that day was mingle great and small
Footprints in summer dust as if we drew
The figure of our being less than two
But more than one as yet. Your parasol
Pointed the decimal off with one deep thrust.
And all the time we talked you seemed to see
Something down there to smile at in the dust.
(Oh, it was without prejudice to me!)
Afterward I went past what you had passed
Before we met and you what I had passed.