Robert Frost’s poetry contributes to a society of people like me, who hold a deep appreciation for works of literature that can make your mind wander for hours after reading one single line. Nature is a staple in Frost’s work, and what he does with it amazes me. Frost uses nature as a metaphor in so many of his poems, and uses nature not as his theme, but as a background or as a symbol that illuminates the true theme and subject of his poems. Nature in Frost’s poetry, harnesses the harshness of the natural world then reflects it in such a manner that it relates to the psychology of the subject and the reader. The poetry comes to life, by learning about the human emotion or situation through rich natural imagery. The nature background in these
…show more content…
I feel like this poem could easily be picked apart and made to mean many different things. I initially thought that there was an undertone of darkness in this poem, one that almost metaphorically led to the image of death or suicide. After a while I strayed from that thought and began to lean more towards what made more sense. The poem as a whole seemed to concentrate on the thoughts and emotions of the traveler, and without ever directly saying so, Frost, through metaphors associated with nature, portrays a man wishing he could escape society but realizing that he had too much responsibility to do so. It can be seen that this traveler was infatuated with the desolation of the woods in the way that he describes them "the woods are lovely, dark and deep" (13) I think that the word lovely lead me away from the dark and deep. The man obviously liked it here. I bet the “dark and deep” could be another metaphor for being alone and away from …show more content…
This poem can be understood very literally. In “Desert Places” there is a much more prominent tone of loneliness. The natural background in this poem is described as cold, dark, and desolate or blank. This background is used to compare this empty place with the emotions of a man that scares himself with his own emptiness. This poem follows a rhyming scheme of AABA over four stanzas, each stanza containing four lines each. There is a pattern in the third line, as it does not rhyme. As expected there is a very traditional sense of rhyme and meter in this poem, giving it
I feel like this poem could easily be picked apart and made to mean many different things. I initially thought that there was an undertone of darkness in this poem, one that almost metaphorically led to the image of death or suicide. After a while I strayed from that thought and began to lean more towards what made more sense. The poem as a whole seemed to concentrate on the thoughts and emotions of the traveler, and without ever directly saying so, Frost, through metaphors associated with nature, portrays a man wishing he could escape society but realizing that he had too much responsibility to do so. It can be seen that this traveler was infatuated with the desolation of the woods in the way that he describes them "the woods are lovely, dark and deep" (13) I think that the word lovely lead me away from the dark and deep. The man obviously liked it here. I bet the “dark and deep” could be another metaphor for being alone and away from …show more content…
This poem can be understood very literally. In “Desert Places” there is a much more prominent tone of loneliness. The natural background in this poem is described as cold, dark, and desolate or blank. This background is used to compare this empty place with the emotions of a man that scares himself with his own emptiness. This poem follows a rhyming scheme of AABA over four stanzas, each stanza containing four lines each. There is a pattern in the third line, as it does not rhyme. As expected there is a very traditional sense of rhyme and meter in this poem, giving it