Directive Resources

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

This one's for the academic in you.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Every seasoned poet needs good eyebrows.

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

Randall Jarrell grinds an axe or two.