How Does Robert Frost Use Of Human Nature

“Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire, I hold those who favor fire.” In this excerpt from Frost’s poem, “Fire and Ice”, the usage of the idea of the end of the world illustrates how Frost uses nature in his poem. In Robert Frost’s poems: “Fire and Ice”, “A Prayer in Spring”, and “Desert Place”, the power of nature is exercised metaphorically to exemplify the positive and negative aspects of human nature. Human nature can be described as pure nature; one minute, people are content with life and then the next they are devastated with it. Humans are just as complex in personality and behavior as is nature with its change in seasons and etc. Robert Lee Frost, one of America’s greatest poets, was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. He grew up in Lawrence, Massachusetts after his father’s death and attended Lawrence High School. During his senior year of high school, he started writing poetry and realized that was what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. Frost then married his high school sweetheart, Elinor White, and they raised their family in Derry, New Hampshire for a few years, and then took his family and moved to England because he wasn’t
Throughout this piece of poetry, Frost depicts himself, possibly, or another narrator as being in a meadow at night. This is suggested by “Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast in a field” (Poemhunter). The narrator is in an empty meadow and snow is falling all around him, emphasizing the factor of loneliness. This poem depicts a negative aspect of human nature. A person can feel so alone and isolated within themselves that they do basically have something surrounding them; “woods around it” supports this theory