From the later 1800’s to the middle 1900’s, Robert Frost gave the world a window to view the world through poetry. He has explored many different aspects of writing. Giving us poems that define hope and happiness to poems of pure morbid characteristics; all of Robert Frost’s poems explain the nature of living. But why does Frost take two totally different views in his poems? Is it because of his basic temperament or could it be that his attitude towards life changed in his later years? Throughout the life of Robert Frost, many different kinds of struggles where manifested in his life that hampered his every thought. Some say that Frost went from a “bright and sunny day” to “a dreary night.” But even with all of the animosities that plagued his life, Robert Frost evolved to become one of America’s greatest poets. Frost’s poems were not respected in the United States at the time that he first began writing. But after a brief stay in England, Frost emerged as one of the most extraordinary writers in his time. Robert Frost’s poetry is loosely based on natural images and settings. His poems are mostly written of people taking some type of walk of journey through nature. Frost comes from a New England background and some of his poems reflect the beautiful scenery that is present in that part of the county. Nature can be used very well to describe human feelings and actions. From the new born life of Spring, through the dying season of Winter. Frost’s ability to use nature to describe his poems cannot be duplicated by any other poet. It is intriguing how he can have two poems with the same setting and have totally opposite feelings that the reader encounters. He uses nature very well in order to tell the reader the tone and imagery of his poems. One thing that Frosts does that interests me is the way some of his poems personify different feelings. His poems can entice ...
