Frost "AGAINST THE DAY" (has this been mentioned yet?)

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Against "the" day, it sounds like, as opposed to "a" day (any given day), he seems to be saying. The use of the definite article is telling. I don't recall the Frost citation being mentioned, although the phrase was certainly considered from that angle. Good addition.


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Subject: Frost "AGAINST THE DAY" (has this been mentioned yet?)


>From Robert Frost's "The Figure a Poem Makes":

The impressions most useful to my purpose seem always those I was unaware of and so made no note of at the time when taken, and the conclusion is come
to that like giants we are always hurling experience ahead of us to pave the future with against the day when we may want to strike a line of purpose across it
for somewhere. The line will have the more charm for not being mechanically straight. We enjoy the straight crookedness of a good walking stick. Modern instruments 
of precision are being used to make things crooked as if by eye and hand in the old days.

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