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A.O. Scott analyzes Robert Frost's "For Once, Then, Something," exploring its themes of self-reflection, narcissism, and hidden meanings. The poem's unusual structure and imagery are discussed within the context of Frost's literary style.

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A.O. Scott analyzes Robert Frost's "For Once, Then, Something," exploring its themes of self-reflection, narcissism, and hidden meanings. The poem's unusual structure and imagery are discussed within the context of Frost's literary style.
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I Can’t Look Away From This Poem About Looking

By A.O. Scott
Aug. 27, 2025

Take a moment to reflect. That’s generally good advice. “For Once, Then, Something” is a reflection on reflecting — on looking and thinking — that teases the double meaning of the word without using it once.

For Once, Then, Something by Robert Frost

Others taunt me with having knelt at well-curbs
Always wrong to the light, so never seeing
Deeper down in the well than where the water
Gives me back in a shining surface picture
Me myself in the summer heaven, godlike,
Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud puffs.
Once, when trying with chin against a well-curb,
I discerned, as I thought, beyond the picture,
Through the picture, a something white, uncertain,
Something more of the depths—and then I lost it.
Water came to rebuke the too clear water.
One drop fell from a fern, and lo, a ripple
Shook whatever it was lay there at bottom,
Blurred it, blotted it out. What was that whiteness?
Truth? A pebble of quart...

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