The Invaluable Significance of Acquiring Knowledge Through Nature: An Analysis of Robert Frost 's Poetry
The term “mother nature” is used quite frequently and portrayed as such in many literary works. It is concordant throughout history that nature has proven itself valuable for nourishment, home, recreation, relaxation and safety. As a child learns from a mother through example, mother nature also provides wisdom in this manner. Through exposure and interactions with nature, a deeper understanding of one and the universe in its entirety is achieved. Consider the advertisements, photos, and quotes that are constantly using nature in relation to a thing, person, situation, or circumstance to highlight and display a better understanding of their …show more content…
This was a risk, but what is a life of writing beautiful poetry, if it is unpublished, unseen, and unappreciated? His poem “Asking for Roses” uses a familiar quote from nature to describe his sense of necessary risk-taking to avoid succumbing to what he saw as an unfulfilled and underappreciated life. “A flower unplucked is but left to the falling, / And nothing is gained by not gathering roses.” (Frost 28) The simple understanding of the life of a rose allows the reader to consider the concept and see the situation through Frost’s point of view, even though he does not force it upon the reader. This technique is rather useful in poetry as well as for educational purposes. While the world around him became more industrialized and “out of balance,” (Wakefield 10) Frost is less concerned about conforming to a “man-made world, where men are driven by the clock and judged by artificial measures of success.” (Wakefield 10) He could have given into the life of monotony and secure financial stability that industry offers, although he chooses to see change as a positive, necessary tool for progress. If described as uprooting a beautiful rose in any other way, could have held a negative connotation which, consequently would have been viewed as destructive. Frost intelligently offers an enlightened point of view of the narrator’s decision to pluck the rose, by further stating that regardless of whether he would pluck the rose, it’s health and beauty will not remain forever. Therefore, by taking the beautiful flower, he has not altered the inevitable fate of the flower withering, but has chosen to share its beauty beyond the ground in which it has grown accustomed to. Removing it from the bed of roses, similarly as one would move from a population, gives it a chance to stand
The term “mother nature” is used quite frequently and portrayed as such in many literary works. It is concordant throughout history that nature has proven itself valuable for nourishment, home, recreation, relaxation and safety. As a child learns from a mother through example, mother nature also provides wisdom in this manner. Through exposure and interactions with nature, a deeper understanding of one and the universe in its entirety is achieved. Consider the advertisements, photos, and quotes that are constantly using nature in relation to a thing, person, situation, or circumstance to highlight and display a better understanding of their …show more content…
This was a risk, but what is a life of writing beautiful poetry, if it is unpublished, unseen, and unappreciated? His poem “Asking for Roses” uses a familiar quote from nature to describe his sense of necessary risk-taking to avoid succumbing to what he saw as an unfulfilled and underappreciated life. “A flower unplucked is but left to the falling, / And nothing is gained by not gathering roses.” (Frost 28) The simple understanding of the life of a rose allows the reader to consider the concept and see the situation through Frost’s point of view, even though he does not force it upon the reader. This technique is rather useful in poetry as well as for educational purposes. While the world around him became more industrialized and “out of balance,” (Wakefield 10) Frost is less concerned about conforming to a “man-made world, where men are driven by the clock and judged by artificial measures of success.” (Wakefield 10) He could have given into the life of monotony and secure financial stability that industry offers, although he chooses to see change as a positive, necessary tool for progress. If described as uprooting a beautiful rose in any other way, could have held a negative connotation which, consequently would have been viewed as destructive. Frost intelligently offers an enlightened point of view of the narrator’s decision to pluck the rose, by further stating that regardless of whether he would pluck the rose, it’s health and beauty will not remain forever. Therefore, by taking the beautiful flower, he has not altered the inevitable fate of the flower withering, but has chosen to share its beauty beyond the ground in which it has grown accustomed to. Removing it from the bed of roses, similarly as one would move from a population, gives it a chance to stand