YOUNG VISITOR:
She runs from tree to tree where lie and sweeten.
The windfalls spiked with stubble and worm-eaten.
She leaves them bitten when she has to fly.
She bellows on a knoll against the sky.
Her udder shrivels and the milk goes dry.
Bill Gleed is park manager of the Robert Frost Farm. He explains that “The Cow in Apple Time” is an example of Robert Frost’s poetic fooling. He says Frost’s cow did go dry, but not because of eating apples. He said Frost kept poet’s hours instead of farmer’s hours. He did not get up early to milk the cow. He did not milk her until the middle of the day. And that is really why her milk went dry.
The kitchen where Robert Frost wrote “Storm Fear” and “Tree at My Window
The tour of the farmhouse provides a sense of how the Frosts lived with no electricity or running water. Visitors can sit in the kitchen where Robert Frost wrote “Storm Fear” and “Tree at My Window.”
The house was carefully refurnished with the help of Frost’s eldest daughter, Lesley Frost Ballantine. She worked to reproduce her childhood home as closely as possible. Many of the books and other objects in the living room belonged to the family, including her father’s favorite reading chair. Frost had one in every house he owned.
Robert Frost lived most of his life in Massachusetts. But he said several times the place where he was happiest was the farm in Derry. He wrote in a letter to a friend: “The core of all my writing was probably the five free years I had on the farm…”
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