A Boy's Will (1913) is a collection of poems by American poet Robert Frost. Published in London and dedicated to the poet's wife, Elinor, A Boy's Will, which received enthusiastic early reviews from both Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats, launched Frost's career as America's leading poet of the early-twentieth century. Invoking such figures as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, and Thomas Hardy, Frost ties himself to tradition while establishing his own poetic legacy, grounded in an intuitive sense of rural New England life and the subtleties of the soul. Into My Own, the collection s opening poem, reveals the poet s strange wish to steal away into those dark trees, / So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze. Without fear, he welcomes uncertainty, ventures into it willingly, knowing it is the only way to live. In Ghost House, the poet enters a realm of shades and spirits, an...
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