# New Hampshire — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for New Hampshire by Robert Frost.

- [New Hampshire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/new-hampshire.md): The narrator reflects on encounters with people from other states who boast or complain about their regions, contrasting their commercial attitudes with New Hampshire's lack of interest in selling anything. He describes 
- [A Star in a Stone-Boat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/a-star-in-a-stone-boat.md): The narrator reflects on a fallen star that a laborer mistook for a stone and used to build a wall, contemplating the loss of wonder and the mundane fate of celestial objects. He searches for meaning in stone walls and t
- [The Census-Taker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/the-census-taker.md): The narrator, acting as a census-taker, visits a remote, dilapidated house in a desolate mountain area, only to find no one living there. He reflects on the emptiness, decay, and the melancholy of counting souls in a pla
- [The Star-Splitter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/the-star-splitter.md): Brad McLaughlin, a failed farmer, burns down his house for insurance money to buy a telescope, fulfilling a lifelong curiosity about humanity's place in the universe. The narrator recounts the town's mixed reactions—mock
- [Maple](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/maple.md): The poem explores the life of a woman named Maple, whose unusual name given by her dying mother shapes her identity and marriage. She and her husband search for the meaning behind her name, ultimately accepting its myste

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- [The Axe-Helve](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/the-axe-helve.md)
- [The Grindstone](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/the-grindstone.md)
- [Paul's Wife](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/paul-s-wife.md)
- [Wild Grapes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/wild-grapes.md)
- [Place for a Third](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/place-for-a-third.md)
- [Two Witches](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/two-witches.md)
- [I: The Witch of Coös](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/i-the-witch-of-co-s.md)
- [II: The Pauper Witch of Grafton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/ii-the-pauper-witch-of-grafton.md)
- [An Empty Threat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/an-empty-threat.md)
- [A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey’s Ears and Some Books](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/a-fountain-a-bottle-a-donkey-s-ears-and-some-books.md)
- [I Will Sing You One-O](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/i-will-sing-you-one-o.md)
- [Grace Notes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/grace-notes.md)
- [Fragmentary Blue](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/fragmentary-blue.md)
- [Fire and Ice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/fire-and-ice.md)
- [In a Disused Graveyard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/in-a-disused-graveyard.md)
- [Dust of Snow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/dust-of-snow.md)
- [To E. T.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/to-e-t.md)
- [Nothing Gold Can Stay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/nothing-gold-can-stay.md)
- [The Runaway](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/the-runaway.md)
- [The Aim Was Song](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/the-aim-was-song.md)
- [Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/stopping-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening.md)
- [For Once, Then, Something](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/for-once-then-something.md)
- [Blue-Butterfly Day](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/blue-butterfly-day.md)
- [The Onset](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/the-onset.md)
- [To Earthward](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/to-earthward.md)
- [Good-Bye and Keep Cold](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/good-bye-and-keep-cold.md)
- [Two Look at Two](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/two-look-at-two.md)
- [Not to Keep](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/not-to-keep.md)
- [A Brook in the City](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/a-brook-in-the-city.md)
- [The Kitchen Chimney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/the-kitchen-chimney.md)
- [Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/looking-for-a-sunset-bird-in-winter.md)
- [A Boundless Moment](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/a-boundless-moment.md)
- [Evening in a Sugar Orchard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/evening-in-a-sugar-orchard.md)
- [Gathering Leaves](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/gathering-leaves.md)
- [The Valley’s Singing Day](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/the-valley-s-singing-day.md)
- [Misgiving](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/misgiving.md)
- [A Hillside Thaw](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/a-hillside-thaw.md)
- [Plowmen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/plowmen.md)
- [On a Tree Fallen Across the Road](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/on-a-tree-fallen-across-the-road.md)
- [Our Singing Strength](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/our-singing-strength.md)
- [The Lockless Door](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/the-lockless-door.md)
- [The Need of Being Versed in Country Things](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/the-need-of-being-versed-in-country-things.md)
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/endnotes.md)

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