Robert Frost's Poems

Robert Frost's Poems

Robert Lee Frost's poems are often about nature and convey deep, hidden meanings in these poems with his usage of simple and comprehensible words and phrases. Out of all the poems written by Frost, I chose ten poems that interests me the most and I feel that way because these poems all convey deep meanings towards life, whether it's making choices in your life or experiencing the different stages of your life. In many of Frost's poems, death and depressing emotions are shown, along with numerous imagery and symbolism, which are used to convey ideas.
In many of Frost's poems, Frost uses phrases and words that are easy to understand and at the same time those words or phrase are often about nature and convey deep meanings. For example, in the poem Stopping Woods On A Snowy Evening, he said ''The woods are lovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep'' feature an image of a forest with fairly simple words and it shows Frost's sorrow of not being able to see the woods because he has to keep promises. He later gets upset as he realizes the fact that he is in a society where you will have to keep promises and it can be seen with the repetition of the line ''And miles to go before I go to sleep, / and miles to go before I sleep.'' In The Road Not Taken, the lines ''Two roads diverge in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both,'' show another image of nature by using easy words and here Frost is stating that he has to make a choice between two path, which are equally good therefore he would like to travel both but he wouldn't. ''Two roads diverged in a wood, and I / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.'' clearly shows two roads in which one is commonly traveled and the other less traveled but more risky than the first road. Frost chooses the risky road which he thinks will not lead to a good end but in the end, he finds out that he did the right thing, and it changed his life completely. Frost's usage of words can...

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