Have You Heard This One Before?

"They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars--on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places."
-Robert Frost

I enjoy my Tuesday / Thursday schedule. The only negative point about it is that my first of two classes is at 8 AM, but even that isn't haunting me as much as it did my freshman year. My second class of the day is Modern American Literature, a title that may sound threatening or dull to some of you. But the reason I decided to take an English minor in the first place was for a breath of fresh air from all the engineering and technical classes, and this one sure delivers. It's reminding me what it's like to read truly exceptional writing, and I'm gaining a new appreciation for poetry. In past years, I've struggled to comprehend what some of these poets were saying, but since we've started reading Frost in class, I'm finding that I actually get most of it. I can identify with it, and that's not only pretty cool, but also what he was arguably trying to do in the first place.