Poet Robert Frost has always tried to write like a man talking. Frost himself talks like a poet, so that it is not always easy to tell whether he is quoting from his works or taking part in a conversation. An English friend once decided that his voice had "the body and tang of good draught cider," but to an Irishman hearing him read his verse it seemed that his words "were flung out from crags—they come to me like the barking of an eagle."
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