The Psychology of Robert Frost’s Nature Poetry

Robert Frost’s nature poetry occupies a significant place in the poetic arts; however, it is likely Frost’s use of nature is the most misunderstood aspect of his poetry. While nature is always present in Frost’s writing, it is primarily used in a “pastoral sense” (Lynen 1). This makes sense as Frost did consider himself to be a shepherd.
Frost uses nature as an image that he wants us to see or a metaphor that he wants us to relate to on a psychological level. To say that Frost is a nature poet is inaccurate.

His poetry is in the main psychologically oriented with emphasis on specific recurring themes, which include, but are not limited to, loneliness, retreat, spirituality, darkness,
The contrast between the humans and nature enables Frost to deal with and illustrate significant issues affecting humans.

A very interesting point regarding Frost’s relationship with nature is that he views it with ambiguity. Most assume that Frost is a nature lover; however, while this is true in part, Frost also views nature as having the capability of being destructive. Lynen speaks of this duality by saying, “You cannot have one without the other: love of natural beauty and horror at the remoteness and indifference of the physical world are not opposites but different aspects of the same view” (7). On speaking of Frost’s dualistic view of nature, Phillip L. Gerber states, “For nature is hard as she is soft, she can destroy and thwart, disappoint, frustrate, and batter” (132). Robert Frost views nature as an ‘alien force capable of destroying man’, but on the flip side, he also views “man’s struggle with nature as a heroic battle” (quoted in Thompson).

In his poem “Our Hold on the Planet” Frost illustrates this point by saying,

Robert Frost's Poetical Natural Representation Many of Robert Frost's poems contain important elements of "nature". Frost uses nature as a metaphor, mainly to express the intent of poetry in poetry. In his background as a natural metaphor, in this metaphor he became some kind of contact with the context of the person who usually observes something in nature and started writing poetry It was. He uses rural landscapes, home farmers and the natural world to introduce the psychological struggle of our daily human beings as we are experiencing.

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