Metaphors In Robert Frost's Poetry

Robert Frost wrote a lot of poems, but all of them had a meaning about them. Robert frost was born in san francisco in 1874. He left college without a degree so therefor he struggled unsuccessfully with farming for over a decade. Frost lived through many big moments in history like world war I, the great depression, world war II, and the cold war. Frost creates meaning in his poems by using metaphors like, "the cow in apple time," "nothing gold can stay," and the road not taking." Robert frost uses metaphors in "the cow in apple time" to show the events of world war I. The poem represents that this is about world war I because the cow represents the axis powers. Also the cow eats apples that aren 't hers and in world war I the central powers took land that wasn 't theirs. "Her face is flecked with pomace and she drools a cider syrup." This is saying that the cow is happy to see the apples, like the central power sees land. In the poem the cow jumps the fence because she wants apples and the real meaning is that the central power is like trying to take axis land. Robert frost uses metaphor in "nothing gold can stay" to represent nothing nice last forever. In the poem "nothing gold

Robert frost uses metaphors in "the road not taken" to imply there are two things to do in life. Frost says "two roads diverged in yellow wood, and sorry i could not travel both and be one traveler, long i stood and looked down one as far as i could to where it bent in the undergrowth;." This is stating that there are two roads and a traveler doesn 't know which one to take. But the metaphorical meaning is that there is a good path and a bad path in life and he doesn 't know if he should take the bad or the good. Also frost says " i shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and i- i took the the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." He sighs at the beginning because he took the wrong path in