Frost's duplicity (sometimes triplicity, maybe more) is part of his charm. Yet if there were not also insight and beauty, I think the charm--the mere pleasure i

Frost's duplicity (sometimes triplicity, maybe more) is part of his charm. Yet if there were not also insight and beauty, I think the charm--the mere pleasure in being as clever as the speaker (if not as clever as the poet)--would wear thin. I truly love Frost, but I love even more Gerard M Hopkins. One gets the feeling Hopkins resorts to dense layers of images not to share a joke with the sufficiently-clever reader, but in desperate earnestness to show what can't be said in prose. "Look--look! See this beautiful/terrible/mysterious thing!"