Blue-butterfly Day
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Published 1936 in a Further Range
Published in 1936 in the collection A Further Range, "Blue-Butterfly Day" presents a brief spring scene in which fleeting blue butterflies outshine stationary flowers. Frost observes how these small winged "flowers that fly" bring concentrated color to the landscape for a moment, while the earth remains muddy from recent wheels. The poem aligns with Frost's enduring focus on rural New England and nature, offering a compact, observational meditation on transience, color, and the contrast between motion and the settled world.
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