Darker side of Robert Frost
Robert Frost is often referred to as a poet of nature. Words and phrases such as fire and ice, flowers in bloom, apple orchards and rolling hills, are all important elements of Frost's work. Remove them and something more than symbols are taken away. These 'benign' objects provide an alternative way to look at the world and are often used as metaphors to describe a darker view of nature and humans. In Frost's poetry, the depth is as important as the surface. The darker aspects of Frost's poetry are often portrayed through the use of symbolism, vivid imagery, and selective word choice. Frost's poems appear to be simple on the surface, yet upon further scrutiny the poems reveal themselves as elusive. Frost utilizes ordinary objects to create a deeper meaning. For example, the poem "Mending Wall", appears to be about the differences between two neighbors and their ideas on rebuilding a wall. On the other hand, the wall may be viewed, in a more general sense, as a symbol to repres!ent all the antagonistic or mistrustful barriers that divide man from man. "The gaps I mean / No one has seen them made or heard them made / But at spring mending-time we find them there" (lines 9-11), illustrates the po
As the seasons change, life progresses and innocence can no longer be sustained. Beneath the apparent simplicity of Frost's writings, lurk!s a hidden commentary on both the nature of personality and the social/political state of society. "Then leaf subsides to leaf" (5) implies autumn, when the leaves begin to turn gold and fall to the ground. The poem also illustrates the loss of innocence. "Stopping by Woods on a Snow evening", also illustrates a dark complexity to Frost's works. The speaker contemplates the decision he must make: "The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, / But I have promises to keep" (13-14). The word 'it', in "The woods around it have it-it i!s theirs" (5), refers to the field and suggests that the field is just there. Dark complexities are not obvious on the surface, however they are hidden throughout his poems in the form of symbols, imagery, and careful word choice.
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