1)Unflinching honesty in the face of facts is a recurrent theme in Frost's nature poetry
2)The very fact that the speaker can recognize in the landscape the full extent of his loneliness shows the mind's capacity for courage.
3)In both his nature poems and his pastorals the poet portrays average human experience by projecting it into a world remote and distinct.
4)A final aspect of the nature poetry and one of the most important is Frost's strong tendency to personification. The device is common enough in poems about nature, and most readers are likely to take an unfavorable view of it. It suggests a sentimental pantheism or oversimple allegorizing. Frost's personifications, however, are different from those to which the Romantics have accustomed us. Their personifications generally take the form of brief metaphor, while his are nearly always extended analogies
2006-12-07
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