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To: Tax-chick
That's the point: poets intend their punctuation to be a cue for the reader (it's not a matter of grammar).

I don't feel like pulling out all of my print versions of this poem, but I'll wager that there is no comma there because Frost didn't want one there.

29 posted on 12/31/2009 8:44:03 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

I have not read this in a book for a long time. I think it’s in the poetry unit of my son’s literature course from last year, because I remember his asking me about it.


32 posted on 12/31/2009 8:46:30 AM PST by Tax-chick (Yo quiero a bailar en Mexico.)
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