nings and allows the reader to develop the writing’s significance. The easiness of his writings though criticized by critics, appeal to the common man (US Literature 509). Once in a interview Frost was asked about his thought process during writing. He said: “I sometimes speak from the last thing that happen to me. I was asked today if I think up my poems. I pick up a lot of things I thought of to make a poem, that is a lot of scattered thoughts through the days that are handy for the poem. That’s where the thinking comes in.” He just thought up poems in his head and wrote them down, not even a rough draft (Lathem 41).I will discuss two other writers. Their comparison with Frost will help display what opinion Frost is writing from in his poems. Robert Frost’s favorite poet was Mathew Arnold, but Frost disagreed with his belief in nature. Arnold expressed his opinion in “In Harmony with Nature” (Brooks 1). Arnold’s arrogance of man over nature was stated in the last two lines of his poem. The last lines basically insulted anyone who would attempt to have a friendship with nature. According to Arnold, if man can’t surpass nature, then man is nothing but a slave to nature. Frost knew very well the relationship between human nature and nature, and disagreed with Arnold. Frost thought Arnold’s opinion was too harsh and Frost’s ideas on nature were slightly more compassionate. Frost believed that nature and man are totally separate (Brooks 2). Many times in his poetry he remarked that nature doesn’t think man even exists. Like “The Need of Being Versed in Country Things” a man’s house burns down. The man now has no shelter, no water, nothing at all. Frost compares a bird’s mumbling chirp as a cry of sympathy for the man, but Frost later states why would a bird care if a man lost his home. The bird perches on a wire most of the ...
