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Opinion | Specks of thought that yearn for freedom

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In November 1939, with World War II already underway, Robert Frost wrote a poem called A Considerable Speck. The witty poem is outwardly trivial.

As he sits at his desk to write, Frost notices a speck sitting stubbornly, as his pen is poised in the air. It is not a speck of his own breathing; the mite has inclinations of its own.

The poet knows he can sweep it away, but he chooses not to—doing so would mean acting in conformity with those who want their slates clean.

Frost listens to his own voice. Frost opposed collectivism, which requires obedience. His imaginative leap came a few years after a man, believed to be August Landmesser, refused to perform the Nazi salute with every other worker at a Hamburg shipyard in 1936.

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