As we dig into the brain of one of life's greatest poets, we have to find the symbolism he uses in his stanzas. Frost has written many different symbolistic poems, but we will look at just four: "Nothing Gold Can Stay," "The Oven Bird," "Fire and Ice," and "The Road Not Taken." Symbolism is the use of a concrete object to represent the abstract. Frost uses symbolism in many different ways such as to show you something about nature, or how nature relates to every day life, or to give you a hint at what he is trying to say. When we look for the symbols in Frost's poems, we can understand his work much better and take advice from the stanzas. Frost takes the lines in his stanzas and puts them into the minds of his readers by the symbolistic ways in which he writes them and forces readers to think out what he is trying to get across to them. Frost's unique way of taking everyday symbols, based mostly in nature, helps us to understand the poem. In the following paragraphs, we will see through four of Frost's works, how symbolism was used, and why it was used in the way it was. We will also see the significance of symbols to help us understand the poem's true meaning.
             In "Nothing Gold Can Stay," Frost uses symbols to show that when you are young, everything is brand new, but when you become older, things begin to fade away and become less enticing. The symbols shown in Frost's poem make a clear pattern of going from early morning to late in the evening, or from spring, to fall, or even from birth, to death. When you look at the poem, you realize that "green," and "gold," leads us to believe that Frost is referring to young or new. This is apparent in these lines below:
             Nature's first green is gold
             When it is early morning and you are just waking up, you see everything as a new day and a new experience of your life; green and...