Reading New Hampshire | Alexandria
Read New Hampshire by Robert Frost. Discovering that home's true meaning lies in leaving it propels Frost's "New Hampshire" into startling territory. The poem upends our instinct to put down roots, suggesting that understanding where we belong requires first abandoning it—a paradox that illuminates today's mobile society and questions of identity. Frost's sly observation that we most deeply know a place once we're gone from it still unsettles.