Robert Frost's poetry is mostly identified with New England, particularly Vermont and New Hampshire. Frost got his inspiration from many of his most famous poems from landscapes, folkways and speech mannerisms of this region. He tends to restrict himself to New England scenes but the range of moods in his poetry is rich and varied. In poems such as "Design" and "Bereft," he responds to the terror and tragedy of life. He writes about different aspects of nature in his poems such as "Come In" and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."
By placing man and nature side by side, Frost often appears to write the kind of romantic poetry associated with England and the Untied States in the 1800's. There is, however a crucial difference between his themes and those of the older tradition. To Frost, the purposes of man and nature are never the same, and so nature's meaning can never be know by man. Man's best chance of serenity does not come from understanding his natural environment. Serenity comes from working and productively amid the external forces of nature.
Source cite:
Field Enterprises Educational Corporation. "Robert Frost." The World Book Encyclopedia. 7th Vol. 1973
"Robert Frost." Websters New Universal Unabridged Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1983.
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