Rogers Hall School - Splinters Yearbook (Lowell, MA)

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My Hands The blood of life runs through my hands VVhich may in trouble soothe, In longing search, In anger strike, With gentleness caress. And in these hands I hold Another's hands, The book to leam, A pen to write, The brush to paint. My deeds are in my hands revealed, Roughness of toil, Softness of love, Lines of grief, Mirror of my joys. These hands are clasped In friendship deep, In loving trust, In understanding, And in deep prayer. My hands are symbols Of my own heart, My deepest thoughts, My hope for peace, My love of God. Comm Tucxnn '63

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Life ls A Stage Standing here upon this stage A fear engulfs my soul. Will the curtain fall on me Before l meet my destiny? Will my life as a stageman's be Constantly waiting and out of sight In the wings where no other is To notice me or my lonely plight? Or in the audience will I be found, Preoccupied with all that surrounds And only in the end, too late, discover That the play has ended and there is no other? NANCY SCANNELL '63 The Regional Significance of Robert Frost Robert Frost has, indeed, left his mark upon American literature. He has obtained universal as well as regional significance through his simple but meaningful poems. Robert Frost did not write simply about nature, but he used nature as a means of exploring the mysterious ways of life and of finding the answers to the eternal questions of man. ln writing about New England, Robert Frost's attitude differed greatly from other writers. When T. S. Eliot and Henry james returned to New England from England, they discovered that a drastic change had taken place. Around the 1860's twelve million acres of land was being farmed. Fifty years later only seven million acres of land was being farmed, and yet the population had doubled. Thus, New England had been a victim of the Industrial Revolution. Eliot and james saw only the waste of land and the termination of a once-thriving tradition. However, when .Robert Frost returned from England and discovered this vast change, he adopted a completely different attitude. He wrote about New England in a hopeful fashion. ln his poetry, Frost recognized the change but, contrary to Eliot and james, he did not view New England as a complete loss. Frost believed that a quality of wisdom and vitality remained which were strong enough to transcend the changed environment. One of Frost's latest poems, Direc- tive, illustrates his attitude toward New England. He is aware of the disorderly state of affairs, but he believes that the new order, if sought after, can be found. If New England does succeed in achieving a new Renaissance, if once again genuine economic prosperity is ours, it will, in no small measure, be due to Robert Frost, whose faith in the enduring values of New England gave New England the courage to believe in itself. ANNE Hocxmnvnn '63