Directive Resources

Websites

Take This Directive

If you want to learn about Robert Frost, read his poems, get some criticism, and all that good stuff, start here.

Feelin' Fancy?

This one's for the academic in you.

Frost Friends

Any friend of Frost's is a friend of ours.

Shmoop Shmoop's Frost

And for the road already traveled, check out Shmoop's own section on all things Frosty.

Video

Clearly Filmed in California

The dude skips some of Frost's best lines, but this short film gets at some of the atmosphere.

Lecture-palooza

You don't have to have a 4.0 average to attend Yale, with this Open Yale Course on modern poets. This session is all about Frost. For the goods on "Directive," head to 00:45:21.

Audio

Read Me Aloud

Readings of this poem are hard to find, and this video wouldn't suffer from being just sound. Let it play on a hidden tab. That way you won't have to look at the creepy candles.

Images

Young Robbie

Before the details were lost to age, the young poet signed his verse, looking quite unlined himself.

Smiley Bob

Every seasoned poet needs good eyebrows.

Articles and Interviews

Feelin French?

A few years before his death, Frost arrives in slippers to answer questions with equal parts of diffidence and orneriness.

Frenemies

Randall Jarrell grinds an axe or two.