‘Metaphor for devastation’

Frost at his 85th birthday party, in 1959.

“While he {Robert Frost) was talking he was looking out,

But stayed in, sagacity better indoors.

He became a metaphor for inner devastation,

Too scared to accept my invitation.’’

— From “Worldly Failure,’’ by Richard Eberhart (1904-2005), an American poet. He knew Frost (1874-1963), a giant of English language poetry.