The Profound Meaning in the Nature Poetry of R. Frost
The Profound Meaning in the Nature Poetry of R. Frost
Abstract:
This article is focusing on investigating the multidimensional nature in the eyes of Robert Frost. For him, nature is more than a friend or an enemy, sometimes it’s the human being ourselves. From some of his poem we can feel that the human intelligence might have a limited horizon which turned out to be a bar for the development between the nature and human beings.
Key Word: R. Frost nature limitation ambiguity Once people think of the poetry of Robert Lee Frost, whom the sole won four times of Pulitzer Price, it is natural to picture in their mind the pastoral landscape of rural New England which he lovingly described. The symbolic images include trees, leaves, snow, and, not surprisingly, frost. His poetry often reveal us the long stone walls, stretching across the grassy hills of the New England countryside, dark trees and mysterious woodlands, the hustle and bustle of energetic wildlife, gardens of flowers, flowing streams and brooks, and other images of rural farmland life. However, not a very successful farmer as he was, whom looked at the effects of nature on human beings and on their “land of living”, Frost, in the second thought, beyond the deceptively simple of depicting scenes from daily life, there is more inside his masterpieces. He has his ambiguities in his nature poetry that implied philosophic thoughts that engage with epistemological presuppositions, which examine the scope and limitation of human knowledge and confront the multi-sided nature of truth itself. According to Frost, the need of poetry springs from pains in life, since “every poem is an epitome of the great predicament; a figure of the will braving alien entanglements”(A Constant Symbol”87). Frost actually had a complicated relationship with nature. Sometimes they can be as sweet as lovers, while other times they were as cold as strangers or even enemies. Ask for the reason, it should trace it’s source to
Abstract:
This article is focusing on investigating the multidimensional nature in the eyes of Robert Frost. For him, nature is more than a friend or an enemy, sometimes it’s the human being ourselves. From some of his poem we can feel that the human intelligence might have a limited horizon which turned out to be a bar for the development between the nature and human beings.
Key Word: R. Frost nature limitation ambiguity Once people think of the poetry of Robert Lee Frost, whom the sole won four times of Pulitzer Price, it is natural to picture in their mind the pastoral landscape of rural New England which he lovingly described. The symbolic images include trees, leaves, snow, and, not surprisingly, frost. His poetry often reveal us the long stone walls, stretching across the grassy hills of the New England countryside, dark trees and mysterious woodlands, the hustle and bustle of energetic wildlife, gardens of flowers, flowing streams and brooks, and other images of rural farmland life. However, not a very successful farmer as he was, whom looked at the effects of nature on human beings and on their “land of living”, Frost, in the second thought, beyond the deceptively simple of depicting scenes from daily life, there is more inside his masterpieces. He has his ambiguities in his nature poetry that implied philosophic thoughts that engage with epistemological presuppositions, which examine the scope and limitation of human knowledge and confront the multi-sided nature of truth itself. According to Frost, the need of poetry springs from pains in life, since “every poem is an epitome of the great predicament; a figure of the will braving alien entanglements”(A Constant Symbol”87). Frost actually had a complicated relationship with nature. Sometimes they can be as sweet as lovers, while other times they were as cold as strangers or even enemies. Ask for the reason, it should trace it’s source to
References: Deirdre J. Fagan, “The Nature of Nature in the Poetry of Hardy, Dickinson and Frost.” A dissertation from College of Arts & Sciences, 2000 Stephen M. Morton, “Bobbing for Apples: Epistemology and the Ambiguous Nature of Robert Frost”. A thesis from the Southern Connecticut State University,2000