Langdon Hammer continues his discussion of Robert Frost in this Yale Modern Poetry lecture (ENGL 310), opening with a primer on meter before turning to close readings of the poems. He scans the iambic pentameter of "Birches" line by line, then traces Frost's resistance to literary modernity through his attachment to rural New England and the working lives depicted in "Home Burial." He reads "Provide, Provide" as a sardonic take on humanity's failure to enact real change, and closes with the late poem "Directive," where Frost offers a more hopeful vision of imagination's power. Along the way Hammer touches on where and how Frost actually wrote. The lecture runs about fifty minutes and assumes familiarity with the texts, functioning as a continuation of an earlier session on Frost's early work.