Robert Frost Quotes
My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
Frost, Robert. "My November Guest." A Boy's Will. David Nutt, 1913, p. 18.
She was educated in Japan and was one of the earliest Chinese Nationalists, male or female. She was one of the charter members and one of the very few women who joined the Sun Yat Sen revolutionary party in 1904. She organized a military unit of 1000 under the cover of the school she was running. When Imperial troops discovered weapons at the school, she was arrested and tortured to find the names of the 1000 and their contacts who supplied them. This quotation is the only “confession” that she would give each time the torture was interrupted to give her an opportunity to confess and implicate the others. This was all she ever said despite the excruciating pain. Finally, when the Mandarin authorities could get nothing out of her and realized that she was becoming a hero by not talking, they beheaded her. Her words have come to symbolize great loyalty at personal sacrifice for a great cause.
Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.
