Meeting and Passing
This poem by Robert Frost was published in 1916 in the collection Mountain Interval. The word interval has a double meaning in New England parlance, sometimes signifying a dip in the landscape and also used to convey a pause in a journey.
Overshadowed by Frost’s more famous works in the collection—including Birches and The Road Not Taken—Meeting and Passing, as with most of Frost’s work, has multiple levels and has been interpreted as anything from a chance meeting sparking the beginning of love to a spiritual journey through the passage of life.