Robert Frost Research Paper

Robert Frost, an American poet of the nineteenth century used the theme of nature in many of his writings. He is not trying to tell the readers how nature works, but how the rural scenes and landscapes are used to illustrate a psychological struggle with everyday experience. Many different emotions such as anger, happiness, sadness, and loneliness can be related to an aspect of nature. Frost shows the theme of nature in most of his poems, but especially in, The Road Not Taken, Stopping by the Woods on a Snowing Evening, and Dust of Snow. Robert Frost uses the theme of nature to better help the reader understand the meanings of life.

In many of Robert Frost’s poems, he uses the theme of nature to aid in his interpretations about life. In The

The speaker is standing in the woods looking at “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both” (The Road Not Taken). “The speaker sees this choice between roads as a metaphor for choosing between the different directions in life,” Andrew said. In this poem, he realizes that he cannot travel both roads so he stops to consider his choices. Throughout the poem, the speaker changes his mind about whether which road is more preferable or if they are equal. By the third stanza of the poem, he reassures himself that he will one day come back and walk the other road (Andrew). Just like strolling in the woods, the risky part is that one decision leads to another and it is difficult to return to the start (Bouchard). At the end of the poem, the speaker is overwhelmed with sorrow and regret

The poem starts out with a traveler pausing late one snowy evening to admire the woods by which he passes. Something about the woods compels the speaker’s interest and has the sense that there is more than meets the eye (Ingebretsen). Robert Frost’s central focus of the poems was not to be the woods, but the importance of why the speaker found it so captivating (Ingebretsen). The speaker says, “The woods are lovely, dark, and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep (Stopping by Woods on a Snowing Evening),” this alerts the reader in its longing for something and its mystifications of the woods to a death-wish the speaker does not understand or recognize (Frank). “Whether he is captured by the beauty of the woods or pulled in by their dark stillness, the narrator chooses to continue his journey (Rice).” The speaker is always stopping by the woods and has the choice to make the most of it or to go on with their previous task. The dark and unowned woods are a metaphor of life’s wildness, and Frost contrasts them with places owned by human beings and made artful by their craft (Ingebretsen). In domesticated places, they make themselves at home spiritually and physically. The human spirit must risk in order fulfilling its nature. Fenced around the social convention and imaginative need, facing the wild wood and the dark choices