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This is one of Robert Frost's smaller collections. This poetic collection was published in New York Times on June 1, 1947. It is dedicated to Robert Frost's six grandchildren. There is tenderness and passive sadness in this volume. In this collection, with Spiritual Themes, Robert Frost portrays religion in an ambiguous way.

The poems of this collection: [1]

  1. Directive
  2. A Young Birch
  3. Skeptic
  4. Etherealizing
  5. Why Wait for Science
  6. Too Anxious for Reverse
  7. One Step Backward Taken

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References

  1. Smith, Virginia, ed. (2018), "Steeple Bush", A Scientific Companion to Robert Frost, Clemson University Press, Liverpool University Press, pp. 179–208, ISBN   978-1-942954-48-4 , retrieved 2024-08-30