For me, Frost is the poet for strong endings. He can be epigrammatic.Saffron wrote:Next comes Hyla Brook. This is just the poem for me today. The last line does it all.
"We love the things we love for what they are."
"Like ghost of sleigh bells in a ghost of snow." What a kick it must be for a poet to find a line like that. The peepers of spring really do sound like faint jingling bells. Like Keats in "To Autumn," he says this scene is not the usual one celebrated in poems: "This as it will be seen is other far/Than with brooks taken otherwhere in song." The last line's interest comes from the fact that this "what they are" is not defined by the impression they give us at any particular time, but by the contrasting states we see in succession, always bearing previous and future states in mind. So this shifting state is "what they are." It sounds like the statement of a realist, but is in fact an endorsement of imagination.