Event Title
Robert Frost: The Near Paradise of Work
Department
English
Start Date
11-4-2015 11:30 AM
End Date
11-4-2015 12:45 PM
Description
In his book, Life Work, Donald Hall tells a story about a dinner party with an
Indian CEO for Proctor and Gamble. The CEO, addressing a conference
of business managers, is asked by a manager in the audience, “What is
contentment?” The CEO’s answer is this: “contentment is absorbedness.” In
this class, we’ll look at some Frost poems that evoke the experience of those
moments when we step outside linear time, when the rhythms of work connect
with the rhythms of nature, and we live inside one of the inmost truths of
religion—that there is a certain rightness to life.
Robert Frost: The Near Paradise of Work
In his book, Life Work, Donald Hall tells a story about a dinner party with an
Indian CEO for Proctor and Gamble. The CEO, addressing a conference
of business managers, is asked by a manager in the audience, “What is
contentment?” The CEO’s answer is this: “contentment is absorbedness.” In
this class, we’ll look at some Frost poems that evoke the experience of those
moments when we step outside linear time, when the rhythms of work connect
with the rhythms of nature, and we live inside one of the inmost truths of
religion—that there is a certain rightness to life.