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For All Seasons

In the eyes of the poet, how can we describe the majestic cycle of nature? Nature is all around us and we are bound by it unpredictable transformations. Robert Frost finds the beauty of nature, yet is quite aware of its fickleness. He is infatuated with the regeneration of life with each seasonal progression. Nature is a mundane detail that we rarely take time to appreciate and sometimes take for granted its tendency to constantly make the world beautiful. When life decays, we see that the world around us is barren and desolate, but we know that it will change with the passing of time. In many of Frost’s poems about nature, he recognizes the beauty of nature, but is also bewildered and sometimes saddened by its continuous change.Frost’s poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, portrays the idea of nature being a life force throughout all of time. Nature is constantly showing us her beauty, but he reminds us that from each day to the next, nothing can be a permanent fixture all the time. In “A Boundless Moment,” Frost is so attracted to nature’s cycle, that he defies what nature ought to do, by creating a leaf that is clinging on to a tree, but the reader knows that this cannot be and soon it will fall off like the rest of the leaves. We do not know when, but this abnormality cannot continue, it must change.“Desert Places” shows more of Frost’s emotions and deals with the natural progression of life. When the narrator realizes that the snow is covering all of the ground he becomes aware that nature is no longer alive or present in his midst. The death of nature is examined thoroughly and leaves little hope for regeneration. Frost is saddened with this idea of death and expresses the true loneliness of life. “Spring Pools” portrays this same image of death, but it is almost a continuation to “Desert Places,” because it provides hope with the “sn...

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