http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1883689,00.html 一個研究生發現Robert Frost未公開發表的一首詩War Thoughts at Home Ed Pilkington in New York Friday September 29, 2006 The Guardian A poem by Robert Frost that has lain unpublished and forgotten for 88 years has been rediscovered by a student in Virgina. The poem, War Thoughts at Home, casts light on the development of Frost's first world war poetry. It was written in 1918, shortly after his good friend, Edward Thomas, died in the trenches of France. ......... War Thoughts at Home is set in a snow-bound house at the time of the first world war. Some blue jays are fighting outside the back door - "this flurry of bird war". The woman of the house is disturbed from her sewing and goes to the window. The birds fall silent, and in the next stanza one bird says to the other: "We must watch our chance/ And escape one by one/ Though the fight is no more done/ Than the war is in France." The woman thinks of the winter camps "where soldiers for France are made", then draws the shades. Outside the sheds look like "cars that long have lain/ Dead on a side track". --

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