ROBERT FROST'S REFLECTION ON MAN'S ISOLATION AND ITS CONNECTION TO SOMETHING IN NATURE

Abstract

Robert Frost‘s popularity was accepted with his simplistic style, his particular sensitivity and a clever use of imagery in his poetry in the twentieth century. Frost‘s poetry includes his life experiences, his work and family, which effectively portrays the New England lifestyle with his simple language. Man‘s relation with universe is his main concern in his poems. The vastness of universe is beyond compare to man with his loneliness and frailty with it. Man‘s indifference and his confrontation of the universe have a connection with certain themes in his poetry. His great admiration of nature made his poems portraying one of the great themes in his poetry: nature. As a prevalent subject, nature brought great optimism and complexity upon to his writings. His respect for nature is stated in the poem Trees at My Window: ―Tree at my window, window tree/ My sash is lowered when night comes on; / But let there never be curtain drawn/ Between you and me.‖ My particular focus in this study is Frost‘s certain joy about nature and even a fear towards it on which results in man‘s isolation in society and despite his struggle to connect himself to it in regards to his longing. This isolation and longing come from human psychology. Therefore the rural scenes, landscapes, farmers and natural world are illustrated with the man‘s struggle with life and personal psychology. This study begins by placing Frost‘s works in the context of Romantic poetry. Frost gives his readers the observation of something in nature and its connection to human isolation. The best way to understand Frost's key themes- his affection for nature, man's reasons for keeping away from nature, man's loneliness in the face of nature, the power of nature to act as a remedy for man's ills- is to examine the poems "Birches," "Mending Wall," "After Apple-Picking" and "Two Look at Two".