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As thousands of students have walked along the woodland paths of the IU Bloomington Old Crescent, they have also touched a path that could lead them to an awakening experience in life-long learning.
In the same manner, poetry allows us to awaken to an unfamiliar yet intimate world within ourselves by using words to nourish our imagination,by giving us an opportunity to look at our world in new ways and by experiencing that new world during the "miles to go before we sleep."
In the famous poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, which was first published in The New Republic on March 7, 1923, Robert Frost shared dreams inspired by the New England woods. Frost was twice a visitor to IU. In April 1943, following a three-week stay as poet-in-residence (above) with the final stanza of the poem as he was Turning Homeward. That same year, Frost received his fourth Pulitzer Prize.
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