Robert Frost: Nature
The Random House Dictionary of the English Language defines the term attitude as the following: "manner, disposition, feeling, position, etc. with regard to a person or thing; tendency or orientation, esp. of the mind." (Random House, 1967) This definition is seen in everyday life. People can show certain feelings towards other people. They can show their feelings or positions on certain topics such as abortion or gun control. People can even have an attitude on life itself. This is nothing new to anybody. Because the eyes of people are humanized, their will always be subjectivity to what one feels or sees. A man that definitely represents this definition and a thought process all his own, was a poet named Robert Frost. What he did was show people, through his works, his attitude towards nature and even some of life. To best represent Frost's works and his attitudes is to bring to the forefront many of his works and show what they could truly mean. The first poem that could show certain parts of his attitude is called Fire and Ice. This poem was from Harper's Magazine in 1920. It reads:Some say the world will end in fire,
It just depends on the state of mind. Desert Places is a very depressing poem with a dark tone. It was in fact the poisons of hemlock that Socrates drank and died. But in this case, I believe that the narrator feeling this dust fall upon him is opening his eyes to a renaissance of thought and feeling. (It should be remembered that Frost's fascination with death or the continual usage of it might be caused by the extremely unlucky childhood his kids had. It says:Whose woods these are I think I know His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. Why does he favor this way? As the poem progresses he reveals that somewhere along his life he has come across some event that has caused him to have a feeling of despair and hatred. But if we continue further in the poem we see where that snow came from, a hemlock tree. All animals are smothered in their lairs. He knows that life is too short to worry it all away, which is why the ending of the poem is the way it is. His attitude towards life in this case is thankfulness. He knows nothing is perfect and to see an image suggesting so, ". He realized that, through the nature of his surroundings, there is always a chance to right the wrongs of the past. I believe these poems did reveal Frost's attitude, which is actually varied.
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