tennis without a net?

• Robert Frost, headnote (Norton, p. 242)
• Frost, "Mending Wall" (also in Norton)
• Frost reads "Mending Wall"
• audio: Al Filreis and George Blaustein discuss the first line of "Mending Wall"
• Robert Frost reads "The Gift Outright"
• Frost in Newsweek, 1956
• newspaper article, "Justices Rule That Congress Overstepped Bounds Scalia and Breyer Trade Quotes from 'Mending Wall,'" by Linda Greenhouse (New York Times, Wednesday, April 19, 1995)
  supplemental/optional readings:
• Cowboy poetry: 'Robert Haas, who teaches American Poetry at Berkeley, went to a cowboy poetry reading in Wyoming. "I was abashed and hugely amused," he says. Haas compares the poems he heard to the popular newspaper poems of the 19th century. "I guess you could say that modernism took poetry away from ordinary people, and cowboy poetry is one way of taking it back."'