Readers Theatre Poems of Robert Frost 2018

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Reader’s Theatre: Poems of Robert Frost

Directions: Poetry is fun to read in two or more voices! Select one of the following
poems written by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Robert Lee Frost, to read with a partner or
in a group. Taking turns is fun! Practice your recitals by swapping single lines, couplets,
stanzas, or any manner you decide.
( Have you ever been faced with a choice, and decided which would be the better one to choose? )
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair

And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:
RT
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, PASSPO
I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.
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( Sometimes the sound of birdsong is in the mind of those beholden!)
A Minor Bird
I have wished a bird would fly away,

And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door

When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.

The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong

In wanting to silence any song.
( Think on your favorite insect. )
Fireflies in the Garden
Here come real stars to fill the upper skies,

And here on earth come emulating flies,
That though they never equal stars in size,
(And they were never really stars at heart)
Achieve at times a very star-like start.
Only, of course, they can't sustain the part. RT
PASSPO

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Two Look at Two ( Who won your last staring contest? )
Love and forgetting might have carried them I doubt if you're as living as you look."
A little further up the mountain side Thus till he had them almost feeling dared
With night so near, but not much further up. To stretch a proffering hand -- and a spell-breaking.
They must have halted soon in any case Then he too passed unscared along the wall.
With thoughts of a path back, how rough it was Two had seen two, whichever side you spoke from.
With rock and washout, and unsafe in darkness; 'This must be all.' It was all. Still they stood,
When they were halted by a tumbled wall A great wave from it going over them,
With barbed-wire binding. They stood facing this, As if the earth in one unlooked-for favour
Spending what onward impulse they still had Had made them certain earth returned their love.
In One last look the way they must not go,
On up the failing path, where, if a stone
Or earthslide moved at night, it moved itself;
No footstep moved it. 'This is all,' they sighed,
Good-night to woods.' But not so; there was more.
A doe from round a spruce stood looking at them
Across the wall, as near the wall as they.
She saw them in their field, they her in hers.
The difficulty of seeing what stood still,
Like some up-ended boulder split in two,
Was in her clouded eyes; they saw no fear there.
She seemed to think that two thus they were safe.
Then, as if they were something that, though strange,
She could not trouble her mind with too long,
She sighed and passed unscared along the wall.
'This, then, is all. What more is there to ask?'
But no, not yet. A snort to bid them wait.
A buck from round the spruce stood looking at them
Across the wall as near the wall as they.
This was an antlered buck of lusty nostril,
Not the same doe come back into her place. RT
PASSPO
He viewed them quizzically with jerks of head,
As if to ask, 'Why don't you make some motion?
Or give some sign of life? Because you can't.


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Reader’s Theatre: Poems of Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

Then took the other, as just as fair

And both that morning equally lay

I shall be telling this with a sigh

I took the one less traveled by,

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Reader’s Theatre: Poems of Robert Frost

I have wished a bird would fly away,

Have clapped my hands at him from the door

The fault must partly have been in me.

And of course there must be something wrong

( Think on your favorite insect. )

Fireflies in the Garden

Here come real stars to fill the upper skies,

Copyright © 2018 Education.com LLC All Rights Reserved

Reader’s Theatre: Poems of Robert Frost

Copyright © 2018 Education.com LLC All Rights Reserved

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