Robert Frost is considered one of the successful poet of nature in English literature. Realistic nature and love of nature has a dominating figure in his poetry. Robert frost never become outdated because poetry is an echo of every sensitive man’s experiences and his limitations. The main theme of his poetry is the despairing state of man in his life. Robert Frost has tried to communicate again and again that man’s effort to gather happiness and love of his fellowmen in the universe. Robert Frost’s chief concern is with man. The focus in his poetry is on man’s position and attitude and especially on his feelings. Robert Frost reveals a good deal about his conception of universe and external reality in his poetry. But what is important to him? It is man’s thought, emotions and behavior as they determine or reflect his relationship with the universe. What does man do, and how does he feel in a universe as dark as this? That is the central question for Robert Frost. ...
Robert Frost is one of those famous poet who has a modern attitude towards nature. He is called poet of nature . The 19th century poets picture nature as benevolent and kindly with a, "holy plan" and emphasised the harmony, the oneness, of man and nature. Modern science, on the other hand, conceives of nature as merely matter, soul-less and mechanical, and so entirely different from, and alien, to man. Frost, too, is constantly emphasising this, 'otherness' of nature. He is a great poet of boundaries, and he shows at every step that some fence or boundary ever separates man from nature. This is what he teaches in poems like Most of It. The rural world, the world of nature into which he withdraws is not a world of dreams, a pleasant fanciful Arcadia, but harsher and more demanding than the urban world. As Lionel Trilling stresses, the world which he depicts is a terrifying one, more terrifying than the urban world, depicted by poets who are generally r...