symbolize the meeting point between heaven and earth (Liebman 7). Frost is going into nature to get the replenishment that he needs to get away when he is "weary of considerations" (Frost 2). Frost chooses to go to the tree not above the tree, to find his own sort of spiritual renewal (French 156). He is only climbing high enough to be put back onto the ground. Thus he is not trying to get away from nature he is trying to use it to free his spirit. Frost states in "Birches," "So was I once myself a swinger of birches; And so I dream of going back to be" (Frost 1).
             Frost proves that men today are not only hurting themselves with the machinery they use, but they are also hurt endangering nature. As the world becomes more and more man-made, nature begins to see the effects. The world begins to want more and more out of nature. It is hard for the earth to overcome and keep supplying to the growing need of humans. Frost uses his poem "Out, out-," as a way of proving that nature is being destroyed by humans. The noise of the machine is used to symbolize the destruction of the countryside, while making men work longer and harder (Wakefield 6). Frost tells in the poem of the boy still being "a child at heart," and how a precious half an hour would have been
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