Robert Frost Research Paper

Everyone has morals in life. Weather learned from nature, family, or past experiences. Robert Frost is well known for using different themes to teach morals in his poems. He uses imagery, emotions, different views, symbolism, and ever nature, to help create an image in one’s mind. The morals that these different types of themes create will make the reader face decisions and consequences as if they were in the poem themselves. His morals can be found in the poems, “The Road Not Taken,” “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” “Out, Out,” and “Acquainted with the Night.” Robert Frost’s poetry uses different themes to create morals which readers will use in daily life. “He is fairly taciturn about what happens to us after death, partly because he finds so much to engage his attention here and now” (Jennings 173).
“I have said that Mr. Frost’s work is almost photographic. The pictures, the characters, are reproduced directly from life; they are burnt into his mind as though it were a sensitive plate.” (Lowell 222). Imagery builds a picture in one’s mind to help depict what moral Robert Frost is trying to produce. In the “The Road Not Taken” imagery is used, for example, in the line, “Two roads diverge in a yellow wood.” By Frost saying in a yellow wood, he is using imagery to infer that it is autumn and the leaves are falling. Then in the stanza, “And be one traveler, long I stood/ and looked down one as far as I could/ to where it bent in the undergrowth.” Frost creates a picture of a person looking down two different paths, deciding which path would be the better choice. The Moral in the poem “The Road Not Taken” is being independent and taking a different path than what others may have chosen imagery is also used in the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” It is shown by the stanza, “Nature’s first green is gold/ her hardest hue to hold. / her early leaf’s a flower; / but only so an hour.” This gives a strong image of the green leaves of spring and beautiful flowers blooming finally