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To point or not to point: Frost's "Stopping by Woods". (Notes).

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From: ANQ
Date: 20030101
Author:Monteiro, George

The most widely publicized of the numerous emendations in Edward Connery Lathem's Poetry of Robert Frost (1969) is the comma inserted in line 13 of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (224). The poet-critic Donald Hall made the early case against this now infamous "comma":

   Frost wrote the line: 
 
   The woods are lovely, dark and deep 
 
   We do not find this line in The Poetry of Robert Frost; instead 
   we find: 
 
   The woods are lovely, dark, and deep 
 
   To say that the woods are 1) lovely, 2) dark, and 3) deep 
   differs considerably from claiming that they are ...

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