International Journal of Servant-Leadership
Abstract
It was my privilege to see a bit of Robert Frost in his last years and, having a feeling for the man as a person, his poetry has a special meaning for me. Philip Booth, in a review, said: "Poems like 'The Demiurge's Laugh,' 'The Road Not Taken,' 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,' 'On a Tree Fallen Across the Road,' 'Desert Places,' 'Come In,' and 'Directive' map, in sequence, the road Robert Frost took into the dark woods, and record the serial ordeal he survived by surrendering himself to the conflicts such poems dramatize." Earlier in Chapter IX, "Servant Responsibility in a Bureaucratic Society," I quoted from "New Hampshire" and "The Night Light" passages which suggest the contrast between the gay and light-hearted conversationalist I knew in face-to-face meeting and the vast inner world of both terror and laughter that he confronted in his poetry.
Recommended Citation
Greenleaf, Robert K.
(2013)
"An Inward Journey,"
International Journal of Servant-Leadership: Vol. 8, Article 5.
DOI: 10.33972/ijsl.130
Available at:
https://repository.gonzaga.edu/ijsl/vol8/iss1/5
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