A Boy's Will

A Boy’s Will By Robert Frost

Part I
  Into My Own
      The youth is persuaded that he will be rather more than less himself
      for having forsworn the world.
  Ghost House
      He is happy in society of his choosing.
  My November Guest
      He is in love with being misunderstood.
  Love and a Question
      He is in doubt whether to admit real trouble to a place beside the
      hearth with love.
  A Late Walk
      He courts the autumnal mood.
  Stars
      There is no oversight of human affairs.
  Storm Fear
      He is afraid of his own isolation.
  Wind and Window Flower
      Out of the winter things he fashions a story of modern love.
  To the Thawing Wind (audio)
      He calls on change through the violence of the elements.
  A Prayer in Spring
      He discovers that the greatness of love lies not in forward-looking
      thoughts;
  Flower-gathering
      nor yet in any spur it may be to ambition.
  Rose Pogonias
      He is no dissenter from the ritualism of nature;
  Asking for Roses
      nor from the ritualism of youth which is make-believe.
  Waiting--Afield at Dusk
      He arrives at the turn of the year.
  In a Vale
      Out of old longings he fashions a story.
  A Dream Pang
      He is shown by a dream how really well it is with him.
  In Neglect
      He is scornful of folk his scorn cannot reach.
  The Vantage Point
      And again scornful, but there is no one hurt.
  Mowing
      He takes up life simply with the small tasks.
  Going for Water

Part II
  Revelation
      He resolves to become intelligible, at least to himself, since there
      is no help else;
  The Trial by Existence
      and to know definitely what he thinks about the soul;
  In Equal Sacrifice
      about love;
  The Tuft of Flowers
      about fellowship;
  Spoils of the Dead
      about death;
  Pan with Us
      about art (his own);
  The Demiurge's Laugh
      about science.

Part III
  Now Close the Windows
      It is time to make an end of speaking.
  A Line-storm Song
      It is the autumnal mood with a difference.
  October
      He sees days slipping from him that were the best for what they
      were.
  My Butterfly
      There are things that can never be the same.
  Reluctance