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Robert Frost was an American Poet who wrote during the early to mid 1900’s. He wrote about nature in his poems and expressed life through means of nature. He always used parts of nature to symbolize something that occurs in the real world.
Robert Frost uses different parts of nature to relate to things that occur in the real world. Critic Malcolm Cowley says, “Frost is a poet neither of the mountains nor of the woods, although he lives among both, but rather of the hill pastures, the intervales, the dooryard in autumn with leaves swirling, the closed house shaking in the winter storms (“Frost, Robert” 427). In other words, this is simply showing that Frost was a man that loved nature and his poems reflected this. For example, in “Clearing”, Frost uses the setting of being in a forest with a man who can’t come to a conclusion between the relationship of nature and humans (“Robert (Lee) Frost” 3). As seen here, Frost uses a forest to set up a conflict of con...