Description
Join us for a unique, interactive performance that begins with a short biographical introduction into the poet’s life. Robert Frost is greatly misunderstood. Certain people, some academics, and politicians included have tried to pigeonhole him, however, Frost is far more complicated than the surface indicates. This is, after all, a man who voted for Eugene Debs, one of the best known Socialists of the United States, but was vehemently opposed to Franklin Roosevelt and “The New Deal”. It is this man that is seen in his poems that are often dialectic between chaos and order. As part of the evening “A Tuft of Flowers,” “Mending Wall,” “Birches,” “After Apple Picking,” “Acquainted with the Night,” and “Desert Places” will be discussed. Stephen is hoping that people will come having read these poems, willing to discuss them. The performance closes with a dramatic reading of Frost’s masterful use of blank verse in the hauntingly memorable, “The Death of the Hired Man.”
Stephen Collins grew up in Cambridge and received a BA in Literature from UMass Boston. After twenty plus years in a sales career, he is back doing what he truly loves—performing and teaching. Recently he has been teaching seminars on Whitman, Hardy, Shakespeare, Frost, and Contemporary Poetry at various locations.
