Robert Frost As A Nature Poet

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Robert Frost as a Nature Poet

             Every writer has individual talent of writing. If we talked about most of the poet’s uses Nature to convey their thoughts and feelings. Johnkeats is considered as a Nature poet. Poet’s tries to spiritualized and personalized nature. Nature has it’s own language and it reflects profound and universal truth. Robert frost’s approach to nature was fusion of all poets. so let’s have look upon how Robert Frost observes Nature.

             Robert Frost is one of the most popular and honored poet of America. Robert Gaves called him

                             "The voice of America"

Like wordsworth he wrote about incident and situation from common life.

Central themes  of his poem :

Men & women

Humanity

Loneliness

Isolation

Characteristic of Frost’s poems :

Clarity and simplicity

Universality and human life

Realism

Philosophy of frost

Note of Humor

Frost as nature poet

These are some of the characteristic of his poems. Here we are concerned with

                     "Frost as a Nature poet"

Nature figures prominently in frost’s poem. He was a farmer and poet. So, he was a always in company of nature. It is most important characteristic of his poem. He spent his life in rural area. So, most of the scene are inspiration from New England. He has written about rural landscape and wildlife. So we can not avoid the fact that he is a nature poet.

Relation between Men & Nature

           His poems are not about how nature works but it’s about human psychology. There is always kind of connection between Nature & men. Most of his poems have a New England and that setting deals with Man’s relation with nature. One misunderstood thing of frost’s poetry.

                 'I am not a nature poet

                      There is always a person first.'

                                          - Robert Frost 

                   He observes Natural beauty minutely. According to Isiodor Human psychology is always central in his poem. Rural scene & landscape, homely farmer and natural world are used to illustrate psychological struggle with every day experience of human being. Frost use nature as a background of his poem. 

                          His poems begin with observation of nature and then move towards connection of human situation. Nature doe not idealize that is the work man so may be a man first. Nature is separate and independent from men. 

                     A person has to maintain harmony with nature. We should follow ways of nature. Nature has ability to destroy but frost saw struggle of men with nature as heroic battle. For example ‘our hold on the planet’. Frost recognized harsh realities of nature. He accepts fact. We have evidence that he observes man’s existence in the natural world that he observe Schneider   

       “is to me the most wonderful thing in his poetry. A snowfall, a bending tree, spring, a valley mist, a brook these are brought in the experience of the reader”

           Frost considered as a countryside poet. All his poems are abound in lovely picture, and the readers find himself in delightful woods valleys and woods hills where he can here the blue joys screech and the whimper of hawk inside the sun; he come upon the purple- stream wild rosberry ,the sudden posture lane of late fall and the abandoned celler holes gradually being reclaiming by nature.

                                                             -cowely

                  The picture of natural beauty gives symbolism through which reader can interpret. Here are some of the examples of his poem in which we find perfect picture of nature.The road not taken, Trees at my window,Two trumps in the mud time, stopping by woods.All this poem are about nature and it gives us accurate description of nature. Rural life is very much connected with the Nature. With the of this theme we can clearly say that frost was interested in Nature and everyday life. As I above mentioned that he was grown up in England that exposed him to particular way of life that seemed less complicated as well as meaningful as compare to the city life. A farmer whom frost describes in his poem have a unique perspective on the world as well as certain sense of honor and duty in terms of their work and their community.Frost has always find metaphysical meaning in everyday tasks & explores relation between mankind and Nature. With the help of rural life and farming communities that he express in his poem.

Pastoral element:

     Frost has spent time in New England. So most of the scenes are inspired from specific location in new England. He does not present stereotypical pastoral themes like sheep and shepherd and all. But he focuses on the dramatic struggles that occur within the nature world as one that inspires deep metaphysical thought in the individuals who are exposed to it. Frost use Nature as central character of the poetry rather than background of the poem. Examples From frost’s poem

Here are some of the examples of his poetry in which Nature is prominent.

                 'Stooping by woods on a snowy Evening'

           The title of the poem itself suggest that the poem is about Nature. At the opening of the poem poet mentions that

                          “whose woods are these”

Narrator likes to sit and watch. He is attracted by the beauty of snowy woods. So, he stops there. In the second stanza frost refer back to the woods. He also likes ice because he brings ice and cold up a lot in this poem.

In the last stanza

                “The woods are lovely, dark and deep”

This lines clearly shows that narrator has attracted towards beauty of Nature

                      ‘Miles to go before I sleep’ 

Even though the narrator has long journey he stops and observes the beauty of woods. This shows interest of frost in Nature. One thing also noticeable that is characters are also lover and appreciator of Nature.

                                   "Fire & Ice"

                       

               In this poem poet presents two natural element Fire & Ice. Both are opposite to each other but important for human beings. They both are projection of human emotion.

                                 Fire=Desire

                                Ice= Hate
This poem is about two opposite views. One who says that world will end in Fire and other says world will end in Ice.
                                        Mending wall 

 

In mending wall, Nature applies to teach lesson to mankind when Nature damages the wall two neighbors are brought together. Frost had a

Love-hate relationship with Mother Nature

In this poem poet has used Nature. He changes his view from woods to water. Here he saw how powerful Nature is when it eats away the cliff.

                                        The Tuft Of Flowers

Once again in this poem Nature has been expressed with the help of grass, mowing in the lawn and listen to the breeze with the eyes of speaker. This explains the lawn mower and what it was doing to the flowers. Frost rise and fall is in the flowers as shown in his expert. The withering of flower representing his fall and the resting flowers represents the rise of his feelings. so, here he represents rising and falling action with the help of flower

After Apple Picking

          In this poem and aged man worked harvesting apples throughout his life. in the smell of the apple. We can realize the old man’s of his apple orchard.

                  So, we can say that beauty of Nature is very well experienced and expressed by frost. Frost is known most for his poem contains nature, one way or another and this is the main themes that he uses.

Nature As Teacher

                A person has to depend upon nature to survive in this world. Robert frost tries synthesizes the human and the nature through language, imagination and metaphor. Frost presents something familiar with us but yet he also presents something familiar with us but yet he also presents complexity and contrast as well as.

Conclusion

         By concluding we can say that he is an excellent observer of Nature. Frost’s poem reflects deep appreciation of natural world. So we can easily follow deeper meaning without any objection. Frost recognized the boundaries of man and nature. His poetry is an evidence of man’s relation with nature.