Diverged in a Yellow Wood

In this case, Robert Frost and Walt Whitman vie for the title “American Bard.” Poet and translator John Ciardi names Frost thus in Saturday Review, and Poetry and the Age essentially does the same for Whitman. The case’s remaining objects point to two poets with a French flair: Gertrude Stein completed Tender Buttons in her Paris apartment, and Sonya Dorman—whose speaker carries “a gold hut” on her arm—pays homage to Guillaume Apollinaire in “Open the Door.” The title of this case comes from Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken."