Study English 24

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...