Route 66 represents a time past. Started in the late 1920s it became an American Icon as a dangerous and fun road moving from east to west. People partied, were robbed, lost everything, made millions, and stopped at the local establishments. I made my way through a few of these old highways, the ones with all the stops. Some of it is run down but much is still worth seeing. There has been an effort to revitalize.
A Boundless Moment by Robert Frost He halted in the wind, and — what was that Far in the maples, pale, but not a ghost? He stood there bringing March against his thought, And yet too ready to believe the most. "Oh, that's the Paradise-in-bloom," I said; And truly it was fair enough for flowers had we but in us to assume in march Such white luxuriance of May for ours. We stood a moment so in a strange world, Myself as one his own pretense deceives; And then I said the truth (and we moved on). A young beech clinging to its last year's leaves. The poem is one of seasons changing and the cycle of life. Each May the bloom comes out and brings life to the death of winter. The poem is about a single moment when the characters see that life has changed. The layers of meaning can be deep but on the surface it appears Robert Frost is discussing nature and its cyclical momentum. Everything in nature moves through patterns. The poem indicates that
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