There are a lot of writers who write about the nature. Nature is an endless treasury of symbolism, allegory, and it can surely inspire poets to use those tools to describe their feelings or to bring their messages to humanity. I would like to examine two short poems and to see how each author uses nature as a tool in his work.
             The first one is "Grass" by Carl Sandburg. This is a poem about the evil of the war. It is told from a nature's point of view, the grass is who is speaking. It is very symbolic – the nature is seen like a mother, who covers all what her bad children had done. She cries, but full of tears still does her job. The poem was written in 1918, the last year of World War One. People were devastated , the general mood of the society, tired of War, was very pessimistic. The structure of the poem reflects the situation after the war- the total mental devastation and destruction of the ordinary people. It has neither rhythm, nor rhyme, it looks like a short conversation piece, but it's content is very poetic. The poem is simple, but it is well understood by both intellectuals and ordinary people as well. The phrases are short, but clearly expressed and easy understandable. There battles mentioned in the poem are well known, and the author deliberately uses battles from different countries, in order to touch more people all over the world. Sandburg sees the grass as an allegory for a mother. It is like a power that observes humanity and covers its crimes. It does not want to judge people, like a mother who always forgives her children. It simply covers all. " I am the grass, I cover all... Let me work..."(Sandburg).
             Robert Frost's poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay", is different. He sees he nature as a shelter, where we can hide from the tough, depressing reality. Frost spend a lot of lifetime traveling in the country, and he felt passion towards the untouched nature of the village. The struct...