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By Dan Dooley | October 4, 2006A lost poem composed by Robert Frost was recently uncovered by a University graduate student. While it's both an exciting historical discovery and a marvelous addition to Frost's body of work, the poem itself serves as a stark reminder that we as students are being constantly bombarded by a disproportionately Western perspective in education, even at the hands of deceased Westerners like Frost. The poem also contains many troublesome and intellectually challenging stanzas, such as the opener: This is a poem by Robert Lee Frost, Up until now it's been totally lost, I thought it was time to surface again, When I heard about the ongoing Capital Campaign. The foresight which these lines demonstrate is rare among (Western) authors, as any (non-conservative) literary scholar will tell you.
