Robert Frost, people call him a nature poet or an author, but no he is a man of metaphors. As a kid growing up in San Francisco, Robert Frost went through very personal hardships. At the age of 11, his father passed away. He then dropped out of college without a degree and struggled unsuccessfully with farming. Four of his six children died, including a son committing suicide, his wife went to depression. During all this personal hardship the world was going through its own troubles such as World War 1, The Great Depression, World War 2 and the Cold War. What is Robert actually saying through metaphors in his poems? In Robert Frost’s poems, he uses extended metaphors in order to provide a message different from the literal meaning.
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He says in the first line “Natures first green is gold”, later on, he says, “Then leaf subsides with leaf. - So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. - Nothing gold can stay”. This all shows us that we should appreciate rare opportunities in life because they don’t last forever and they don’t come around often. Frost shows us that nothing is immortal. “Mending Wall” is one of the greatest poems written by Robert Frost. The literal meaning about the wall is that there are two neighbors that come together every spring to fix a wall that is separating each other's property. The speaker does not understand the need for the wall, while the neighbor says “good fences make good neighbors”. The figurative meaning of the poem is that the wall is used for protection and privacy. Sometimes you need boundaries and those boundaries may be bad or good. In the poem, the wall separates the two neighbors but also brings them together. Robert Frost uses metaphors to show a deeper understanding of the poem. With all of these different poems that I have mentioned the conclusion is very simple. Robert Frost is a poet of enormous talents. He lived a life of struggles, but he left a legacy that would never be
He says in the first line “Natures first green is gold”, later on, he says, “Then leaf subsides with leaf. - So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. - Nothing gold can stay”. This all shows us that we should appreciate rare opportunities in life because they don’t last forever and they don’t come around often. Frost shows us that nothing is immortal. “Mending Wall” is one of the greatest poems written by Robert Frost. The literal meaning about the wall is that there are two neighbors that come together every spring to fix a wall that is separating each other's property. The speaker does not understand the need for the wall, while the neighbor says “good fences make good neighbors”. The figurative meaning of the poem is that the wall is used for protection and privacy. Sometimes you need boundaries and those boundaries may be bad or good. In the poem, the wall separates the two neighbors but also brings them together. Robert Frost uses metaphors to show a deeper understanding of the poem. With all of these different poems that I have mentioned the conclusion is very simple. Robert Frost is a poet of enormous talents. He lived a life of struggles, but he left a legacy that would never be