The Use Of Metaphors In Robert Frost's Poetry

Robert Frost was an American poet born in San Francisco, California, in the year of 1874. Frost was a man known as a "natural poet", and also a man known highly for the use of metaphors in his writings. Growing up he had a rough childhood and that later carried on into his adult life. He lost four of his children and unfortunately his wife was struggling with depression. Throughout his lifetime many historic events happened like, the Great Depression, The Cold War, he was even around for World War One and World War Two. During these hard times in his life, Frost turned to poetry. He took what he was feeling and incorporated those emotions into his poems. Many poets used metaphors, but not like Frost. A metaphor is a direct comparison without using like or as. Frost write many poems but the ones I will be writing about are, "The Cow in Apple Time"(Doc B), "Nothing Gold Can Stay"(Doc C), "The Road Not Taken"(Doc D), and "Mending Wall"(Doc E). Frost's well known poem, "The Cow in Apple Time"(Doc B) was written in England in 1914, right after the outbreak of World War One. In this poem Frost uses a cow, and this cow jumped over a "wall" as if it was an open gate, once she gets to the other side, she sees trees. The trees had fallen apples next to them, so she …show more content…
This poem contains five couplets. A couplet is two lines of a verse. In the poem "Nothing Gold can stay" Frost is talking about the spring time and the sights and all the beautiful flowers and how they only last so long before they leave. The metaphor in this writing is referring to the Garden of Eden. The garden at one time was beautiful, but that was taken away. This poem infers that something can be beautiful and just right, but nothing good can stay. This poem is referring to him and his family. At one time they were a happy family, and everything was alright, but as Frost says, "Nothing Gold can