Introduction Ecocriticism Ecocriticism is the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment. Just as feminist criticism examines language and literature from a gender and equality perspective, and Marxist criticism brings forward an awareness of modes of production and economic class to its reading of texts, ecocriticism takes an earth-centered approach to literary studies. The similarity of each field of ecocriticism is the assumption that the ideas and structures of desire which govern the interactions between humans and their natural environment are of central importance. Robert Frost and Ecocriticism According to Zhang (2008), Robert Frost is one of the most important poets in the 20th century American literature. …show more content…
The poem starts by talking about the colors of spring, saying that nature is first gold, then green. Leaves, the poem says, start out as flower buds. But these golden flowers don't stick around for long—they turn green and become leaves. According to the speaker, this natural process is related to the fall of the Garden of Eden, as well as the change of dawn to day. Then the poem wraps itself up, reminding us that the beauty of gold is only temporary. The character of this poem is Spring. It describes how in the first place, Spring is golden, but just temporarily. It slowly loses its ‘goldenness’ and turns green. This poem likens humankind with nature. This is apparent in the sixth line, ‘So Eden sank to grief,’. This refers to the event in the Bible where Adam and Eve are removed from Eden for eating the Fruit of Knowledge. As we all know, Eden is full of anything that we would ever want -everything will appear at the tip of our finger. Therefore, Robert Frost equates spring’s golden hue which is ‘her hardest hue to hold’ with this incident. Other than that, the change of Spring from golden to green is also similar to the change from dawn to day and day to dusk, according to Robert Frost. Day and life come to an end. Nothing good or great can last …show more content…
Frost has said many times, "I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems." He uses nature to imply human’s nature, the way human thinks and act, especially in favor towards nature itself. Most of Frost's poems use nature imagery. His understanding of natural fact is well recognized. It may sometimes seem so but Frost is not trying to tell us how nature works. His poems are about human psychology. Natural scenes and landscapes, animals and the natural world are used to illustrate a psychological struggle with everyday experience in relation of his personal life. Frost uses nature as a means of delivering these. He usually begins a poem with an observation of something in nature and then moves toward a connection to some human situation or