Robert Frost Essay, Research Paper

ROBERT FROST

Robert Frost is an amazing poet that many admire today. He is an inspiration to many poets today. His themes and ideas are wonderful and are valued by many. His themes are plentiful however a main one used is the theme of nature. Frost uses nature to express his views as well as to make his poetry interesting and easy to imagine in your mind through the detail he supplies.

First, in the poem ?Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening? there is a lot of nature expressed. Frost?s very first sentence already talks about the woods. Whose woods these are we don?t know. Also, in the poem he states that the narrator likes to sit and watch the snow. He is also a nature lover. In the second stanza Frost refers back to the woods. He must also like ice, because he brings ice and cold up a lot in his poems. Once again Frost brings ice up when he mentions flake and cold wind.

Then in the last stanza Frost mentions woods again. Even though the narrator has a long way to go he always has enough time to stop and watch the small thing in nature in detail. This goes to show that Frost?s interest in nature is very large, and he portrays this through his characters.

Second, in the poem ?Once by the Pacific? there is a lot of nature expressed. Frost changes his nature view from woods to water.

In this poem he now talks about water. The reader can see how powerful the water is when it eats away at the cliff. The shore was lucky by being backed by the cliff. Once again Frost is discussing water which goes back to stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening by stating the water because there is water in this poem with snow Frost keeps bringing up water and snow. Water is a sign of being powerful, Frost must love having power by showing it with water. He also shows how powerful water is by tearing away at the cliff.

Third, in the poem “The Tuft Of Flowers” there is also a lot of nature being expressed. /I went to turn the grass once after one./ Who mowed it in the dew before the sun/. Once again in his poem nature is introduced. Robert Frost expresses his love for nature in this poem all throughout. Through the length of the poem he talks about grass and mowing the lawn and listening to the breeze.

/Seeking with memories grown dim o?er night/ some resting flower of yesterday?s delight/ And once I marked his flight go round and round/ As where some flower lay withering on the ground./ This is an excerpt that is through the eyes of the speaker. This explains the lawn mower and what it was doing to the flowers. Frost?s rise and fall is in the flowers as shown in this excerpt. The withering of the flower representing his fall and the resting flower represents the rise of his feelings.

Nature is a beauty experienced by all. Robert Frost surfaces the more detailed things that nature has to offer through his poems. Robert Frost is known most for his poetry obviously, however most of his poems contain nature in one way or another and this is the main theme that he uses.