
Robert Frost
Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast
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Hogger Mogo Farming - The Voice of the Poem
We don't know, at this point anything about him, other than he's not the best farmer in the world and he's interested in astronomy. We're about to find out quite a lot about him in an explosion of information from the speaker of the poem rather than the quoted speaker who we've met so far. So brad mc laughlan mingled reckless talk of heavenly stars with hogger mogo farming. Till having failed at hogemogge farming, he burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds a telescope to satisfy a lifelong curiosity about our place among the infinities. And i mean, that is the way to hook you, that he burnd
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