Robert Frost

Melanie Ferry

English 112

Professor Frantum

April 4, 2007

Analogy of Robert Frost Poetry.

Robert Frost, who was born in March 26 1874, was a writer of traditional aspects portraying his life and his view of nature Frost was a person of form, he always played by the rules and even within the poems he wrote. Frost is considered one of the greatest twentieth century poets. His poetry was written by certain structural rules. Robert Frost liked to write using figurative language. Frost has a versatile optimistic view of life using symbolic figures of nature and beauty to bring about life his his eyes. There are three great poems by Frost for which present a great meaning to nature and life. The poems I will discuss are Nothing Gold Can Stay, The Road not Taken, and Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening ( The Academy of American Poets.)

In the first poem Nothing Gold Can Stay Frost puts a great emphasis on the natural cycle of change personifying it with the beauty of a leaf.

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower,

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf,

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day

Nothing gold can stay.

The author incorporates iambic pedameter with a simple, yet form rhyme scheme which brings the poem to life. The first few lines form a simple foreshadowing paradox of the seasons, representing a leaf changing. A basic metaphor of nature, which represents a human cycle. In line "Then leaf subsides to leaf" and "So dawn goes down to day" illustrates a certain point within society of how once you evolve into adulthood and maturity; one is no longer innocent and new ( Line 5, and 7).

In the first line where it says green is gold, green is more of a synonym for immaturity. Once Maturity is reached, the inability to remain an individual changes. Within the human cycle, knowledge usually occurs with growth. Within the line "So dawn goes down to day" this symbolizes the human life span in the cycle of life. Robert Frost provides a condensed metaphoric description in this poem. A poem quite complex and yet quite short.( Frost, 763).

In the second poem, I will discuss the Robert Frost poem Road Not Taken. With in the poem Frost puts an emphasize on basic imagery for which one can take a mental picture of each line described.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference

For example the line "two roads diverged in a yellow wood" its photographic image which stimulates the reader into seeing what Frost is actually seeing with his own two eyes. The tone of the poem is quite dramatic for the speaker is trying to decide which road to take. In literary piece Frost uses the fork in the road as a metaphor for making hard choices. The poem is inspirational and symbolizes the tough decisions adults have to make from the early morning until the late night in life. The literal meaning of the poem is a man who comes to a fork in the road and is unsure of what road to take. This stimulates an even deeper figurative meaning. Unsure of what the right path for his life would be. One essential them dictated by Frost is human beings must be able to choose their own journey in life. No matter if the consequences aren't grand. Frost illustrates an idealistic view of individualism and a person having the right to be free. With this freedom of choosing their own pathway to life whether it be the wrong or right road. Frost brings about life is never easy. The line in the poem regarding two roads diverged is a well established metaphor for traveling through the hardships of life. Like the speaker traveling in the poem we all have hard decisions to make, trying to choose a good life and not being afraid of rejection or failing. There