Poems by Robert Frost, Part 4

We end our month of Robert Frost's poetry with two well-matched poems:

"The Trial by Existence" is a longer poem, and one of my favorites. In the Christian Atheist podcast, one of our themes is that Truth is best discerned by living it. This poem expresses that point with great elegance. The life we live is the life we choose, or to put it as Jean-Paul Sartre would say it, we are our choices, even when we are ignorant of the choice.

"Reluctance" is the complementary opposition to our first selection, as it speaks of the human propensity to constantly push the boundaries of our lives, to question, to seek. As a philosopher the eternal drive to transgress our limits is both noble and fraught, and my soul is the moth to that flame.

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