Robert_Frost

Robert Frost In many of his poems, Robert Frost uses images of and nature, especially trees and forests, to convey his thoughts and emotions. The turning of the seasons, a wooded area, and other things common in nature, were also common in Frosts poems. Many people attest this to his working as a farmer on an old New England farm for part of his life, operating a failing New Hampshire Chicken farm. His poems were also often in first person. It helps show a sense of knowledge, so the reader can think that the person may have lived the experience, and is thus more knowledgeable for it. In Frosts poem ‘Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening’ (Literature and Its Writers, 807), Frost writes about an experience in the first person, of a man on a journey, who stops by a some woods. He comments on how he knows the man who owns them, but how the person lives in the town, and wont see him. He also mentions that the woods are filling up with snow "To watch his woods, fill up with snow" (807). So far, there is woods, and snow. In the next stanza, he mentions a frozen lake, and life, frost, man, woods, sense, path, nature, snow, one, first, poem, mentions, poems, much, forest, about, way, says, road, reader, person, paths, night, never, lake, stanza, go, frosts, far, exploring, either, common, because, 807, very, unknown