Remind Me Of Someone

"The Pasture"


I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
I'll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):
I shan't be gone long. -- You come too.

I'm going out to fetch the little calf
That's standing by the mother. It's so young,
It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
I shan't be gone long. -- You come too.


Robert Frost was born March 26th, 1874. He was born in San Francisco, California. His first published work was "A Boy's Will". He recited a poem for the inaugriation of JFK and is considered one of the most famous American poets in history. He died January 23rd, 1963.

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This poem is very similar to others I have in this collection. It seems my favorite poems are poems that have to deal with love. This poems tells of a person who is about to leave away. He or she then asks if the person they're talking to wants to come with them. That's what the poem is about. This is what it means:

Like Annie Laurie, I performed a version of this piece where it had been set to music. I performed it at the Mars Hill College Choral Festival, a massive concert where the best 250 singers in North Carolina go to perform a concert. (I'm not being vein at all.) I remember I didn't understand this piece until our conductor explained it to us. This is what he told us:

"Whenever I was in college, I met this one girl who I just HAD to spend every second with. I spent weeks planning on how I was going to ask her out. I decided that I woud take her out to a nice dinner then to a movie. Well, when I actually approached her, I was so nervous that the only thing that came out of me was 'Do you want to eat pizza at my dorm and watch Star Trek?' She said, 'Yeah. I'd like that.' So we went to my dorm later that night, ate pizza, and sure enough watched Star Trek."

And then he explained how it connected to the poem. He said that this piece was about that one person you just HAVE to spend every waking moment with. Even if it's nothing, like tending to cattle or watching Star Trek, it doesn't matter what you do. Just as long as you are with that one person. That's what this poem means. It makes me think of him, explaining to us how beautiful this piece was that we all went in thinking it was just dopey.