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Robert Frost As A Nature Poet

Robert Frost is recognized as a prominent modern American poet who intricately weaves nature into his works, emphasizing the complex relationship between man and nature. Although he asserts he is not a nature poet, his poetry vividly describes natural elements while often portraying nature as hostile and cruel. Frost's poems, such as 'Birches' and 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening', reflect both the beauty and the moral lessons derived from nature, highlighting his deep love and critical analysis of it.

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Robert Frost As A Nature Poet

Robert Frost is recognized as a prominent modern American poet who intricately weaves nature into his works, emphasizing the complex relationship between man and nature. Although he asserts he is not a nature poet, his poetry vividly describes natural elements while often portraying nature as hostile and cruel. Frost's poems, such as 'Birches' and 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening', reflect both the beauty and the moral lessons derived from nature, highlighting his deep love and critical analysis of it.

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Robert Frost As a Nature Poet

Robert Frost was a leading modern American Poet of nature and rural life. Nature
is first most important characteristics of Frost’s poem. Frost place a great deal of
importance of nature in all his collections. Most of his poems are upon natural
elements. He was very interested in natural things; he found in common place.
Many of his poems have a new England setting and deal with the theme of man’s
relationship with nature. His nature is not simply a background for poetry, but
rather a central character in his works.
So many literary writers like Chaucer, Spenser, William Wordsworth and Keats
uses nature in his work. Robert Frost also occupies a prominent place among
these writers. The poems of Robert Frost abound in natural images and
landscapes. But Frost is not a nature poet in the tradition of William Wordsworth.
Marion Montogomery says , “ Frost’s poetry is concerned with the drama of man
in nature whereas Wordsworth is generally best when emotionally displaying the
panorama of the natural world. “ Frost confirmed this fact in a television
interview in 1952 by saying, “I guess I’m not a Nature poet, I have only written
two poems without a human being in them”.
Although Frost has clarified his stand on his poems. That he is not a nature poet,
still his poetry contains accurate, concrete, vivid descriptions of natural objects.
Most of his poems, like Birches’, “ Mending Wall”, ‘Stopping by Woods on a
Snowy Evening’, contain realistic and symbolic description of nature.
In Frost’s nature poems there is always a reference to man. Although he does not
find the same spirit running through Nature and Man. As William Thrope says,
“Frost always knew where to find line which separates nature from man”. Some
of the most important poems in which Nature predominates are “Birches”,
“Stopping by Wood”, “The Oven”.
According to him nature is the enemy of man. In his poems, Frost expresses
nature in both its generous and harsh forms, but to him nature mostly appears
not to be kind and generous but to be hostile and cruel. There is no harmony and
respect between man and nature. In the poen named Design, it has been shown
that nature is not beneficial to humans.
Frost loves nature deeply. In the poem “Birches” he presents to the reader a
beautiful picture of snow falling on trees glistening in the sun’s rays. He was a
great lover of birds, insects and animals. Birds appear and reappear in a large
number of poems like ‘ A Minor Bird ‘, ‘The Oven Bird’ and looking for a ‘Sunset
Bird in Winter’.
Frost has given moral teaching on nature also. Lewis Leary remarks, “He is a
serious moralist as well as a serious artist.” In the poem ‘Stopping by Woods’, he
teaches the lesson that in life one must do one’s duty and fulfil one’s obligation.
In this way we can say that Frost loves nature deeply. He has not only studied the
beneficial and pure aspects of nature but he also deeply analyzes and expresses
the evil aspects of nature through his poems.

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