West-Running Brook


West-Running Brook is a book of poetry by Robert Frost, written in 1923 and published by Henry Holt and Co. in 1928, and containing woodcuts by J. J. Lankes. Because of this volume, Robert Frost is called "Home Spun Philosopher". The title of the poem the volume is named by is very significant. In the poems location,, due to its location near the coast, all rivers flow towards the ocean, but West Running Brook goes westward making itself unique, in the same way; the poet trusts himself to go by contraries.

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