A Personal Nature – The poet Robert Frost

The poet Robert Frost has been described as the gentle sensitive England poet. This is becaexercising of his eloquent and subtle use of New England temper scenes as a metaphor for the gay condition. In his meters Robert Frost manipulates spirit, humanizing and exaggerating it with the purpose of creating a fictional world for his showcases. This use of constitution as the active driveway force for the poems is vital to Robert Frosts subtle implication of deeper meanings in his poems.Frank Lentricchia noted that in Birches personality per wreaks the potters blind and molds screwball onto the speakers figurative lash tree which becomes bracken by the load (line 14). Such a shiny description of the natural process of winter storms leaving behind loads of ice to weigh mass trees speaks volumes to the weight the speaker must feel on his life. The poem goes on to allow the speaker to re-live his delusion and become a swinger of the birkenes (line 58).In this metaphor, swing ing in the birches - constitution- is compared to leaving your cares behind and being elated again, in this way according to Frank Lentricchia, Frost grants (the speakers) wish. These acts of disposition destine an original and distinctive dream to the poem says John C. Kemp. This is obvious in Frank Lentricchias allusion to Mother Nature in his analysis of the speakers twilight from enlightenment in which the blessed pull of the earth is felt again (Kemp). Because Mother Nature is temperament herself the speaker feels that nature has a warm pull on man, further emphasizing and humanizing Frosts consistent use of nature.Robert Frost goes even further than creating a metaphor of nature to human condition. The brilliance of the poet brings nature to a humanized level so he can manipulate nature itself to fit his motivation. The purpose of this is to rid the poem of contaminating matter-of-fact (line 22) verbiage. According to Frank Lentricchia the emotive power of the poem rise s uncontaminated from the morass of philosophic problems that harm the poem if the poet decides to turn to knowledge of facts to influence a point (Lentricchia).This theme of a humanized nature is evident in Design in which natures design steeres the white moth thither in the night, (line 12) magnanimous nature an active, driving role in the poems message of the design of nature. Frank Lentricchia also notes that this humanized nature indicates a human will riding roughshod over a pliable external world, giving Robert Frosts characters a aesthesis of separation from the external world and a feeling of security in nature.In Birches nature stands humanized as the poet allows the speaker to transcend the scientific universe and, at the same time, the poet allows the fictive world to be penetrated by imagination (Lentricchia). This secure world in which Robert Frosts characters live in is not a realistic nature but alternatively an unsanctioned vision of the world (Lentricchia). An immediate example of this is Frosts Design in which the unnatural dimpled and white (line 1) spider sits atop the mutant white heal-all (line 2).These two extremely rare albino obscurities are in all probability to never meet each other in the real world however Robert Frost has idyllically introduced them as companions in natures supreme design. The pleasant swinging of a boy in a birch tree in Birches is also obviously fabricated because of the perfect, linear oscillations of the boys swing. This lie is rattling effective, however because the smooth, down(prenominal) swing of the speaker back to earths love (line 51) is a redemptive personality inhabited by Robert Frosts Nature, giving man and Nature an intimate connection. The ice on the trees in Birches is also very idyllic.Because of the weight of the ice, the branches whitethorn never right themselves, (line 16) however the beauty of the ice makes one believe that the inner dome of heaven had fallen. Although nature in the form of ice represents lifes burdens, it redeems its relationship with man through its manifestation of a birch tree in which it grants the speaker his wish by launching him into heaven and back again. Ralph Waldo Emerson describes mans relationship with nature so deeply that he felt man was no better acquainted with his limbs than he is with the air, the mountains, the tides, the moon, and the sunlight (Montiero).Richard Gray comments that in Design, Robert Frosts imaginary Nature whispers secret, sympathetic messages to us. Because of this perfect relationship established between nature and the characters, caused by the humanization of nature and the exaggerated fantasy world, Frost effectively portrays all of the characters emotions. Robert Frosts resource as a poet is effective enough to use nature not for shocks and changes to keep the reader interested, but rather as a useful tool to deliver the best message (Lentricchia).Because of Frosts great manipulative talents he is a ble to do what most poets cant. For instance, Frank Lentricchia believes that in Birches Frosts use of the pathless timberland would appear banal if any other poets were using it, but for Frost it only adds to the overall feeling of the poem. In Birches, nature manifests itself in three beings- the ice on the tree, the fanciful birch which lifts men up into the heavens, and the pathless woods (line 43) which represents lifes considerations.As a result, the poems passionate concluding lines, its closing pronouncements on life, death, and human aspiration, do not give the reader a sense of finality. Instead, they are presented as doctrines that we must accept or reject on the basis of our belief in the speaker as a wise countryman whose familiarity with birch trees, ice storms, and pathless woods gives him authority as a philosopher (Kemp) . Therefore, the the natural order tree, ice crystal, pathless wood functions as proof of the wisdom of Robert Frost (Kemp).The manipulation of nature in Robert Frosts verse turns it into a character rather than a withdrawn force this character shares human emotion and fantasy and creates a very inviting fiction for the poems characters to live in. Not only does this characterization emphasize Frosts emotions, but it gives meaning to them. Robert Frosts intention with poetry was to express his feelings in an uplifting way, not to pour out his personal struggles in a form of self-pity, and through such an exact setting of a personal nature, he accomplished just that.