Robert Frost Poem Analysis

Would Bird’s Song Be the Same, Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter, The Oven Bird, etc., are all devoted to affectionate and sympathetic study of the ways and habits of birds.
Frost had a peculiar habit of tagging his philosophy or a moral at the end of his nature poems. Thus, Over Bird teaches him, “what to make of a diminished thing”, and in Stopping by Woods, etc., the poet turns away from the ‘lovely’, ’dark and deep’ woods, for he has promises to keep, and thus teaches the lesson that in life one must do one’s duty and a host of other nature pieces, all end at a moral note.
As regards Frost’s attitude or philosophy of nature, it is quite different from that of Wordsworth and the other English romantic poets. Nature from him is not a kindly mother, watching benevolently over man, neither does she have any ‘holy plan’ of her own for the good of mankind. At best,

Frost is a great poet of boundaries and there are boundaries which separate man from nature. There may be certain moments when man is ‘favored’, and ‘nature’ takes a sympathetic interest in him, but such moments are rare. Thus in Two Look At Two, a doe and a buck look at the lovers, and take some interest in them. But that is all; then they run away. There is still the man-made fence which separates them and which cannot be crossed. The barriers are always there; man can never be sure that nature returns his love. Frost does not attribute a soul or personality of nature. His natural world is impersonal, unfeeling and at the best animal creation. Frost’s makes his attitude towards nature clear when he says in New Hampshire that “I wouldn’t be a prude afraid of nature” and again rather flatly, “Nothing not built with hands, of course, is scared.” Man must constantly struggle to conquer nature’s wildernesses and subdue them to his use. In The Mountain, the mountain takes up all the space and prevents the village from