Waiting for Form
How Robert Frost made poetry modern.
BY TYLER MALONE
I. A Lover's Quarrel
In the cemetery outside Old First Congregational Church in Bennington, Vermont, among other stone markers that “doubtless bear names that the mosses mar,” is a long, rectangular gravestone embossed with seven names: those of poet Robert Lee Frost; his wife, Elinor Miriam White; and five of their six children. Their daughter Irma, committed to a mental institution in 1947, is the only one not buried with them.
