— Robert Frost, “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” “Snow brings a special quality with it — the power to stop life as you know it dead in its tracks.” — Nancy Hatch Woodward ...

LIMBONG: Jay Parini is a poet, novelist and Robert Frost biographer. Thank you so much for your time. PARINI: Thank you, Andrew. It's been good to be here. LIMBONG: Happy Winter.

In 35 lines, Frost tells the story of a woman at home on a winter afternoon during World War I. "It begins with a sense that something might be wrong in the world," Stilling said about the poem.

Whose words these are I think I know. I think you know, too. These words, with one change, were penned by Robert Frost in 1922, the opening line of one of America's most revered and recit… ...

Jay Parini, a Robert Frost biographer, on “Nothing New,” a poem Frost wrote in 1918, which is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

LIMBONG: Jay Parini is a poet, novelist and Robert Frost biographer. Thank you so much for your time. PARINI: Thank you, Andrew. It's been good to be here. LIMBONG: Happy Winter.