day. The bird doesn’t have a water pump delivering water to it’s home and it must go out and find the water (Brooks 4). Also, in “Come In” the speaker hears the thrashing of bushes from the woods and interprets it as a invitation to join mother nature in the forest. However this meaning quickly changes and the speaker realizes mother nature hasn’t even noticed the man walking by (Brooks 5). Frost had another encounter with a young writer named Wade Van Dore. Dore was a student in college and was seeking Frost’s help in publishing a volume of poems. Frost had a problem with Van Dore’s poem “The Echo”, by calling it too sentimental. The poem was about a man crying in the wilderness looking for love, but instead of love the man is hit by a buck crashing from out of the bushes (the buck represents physical passion) (Thompson, “Encouraging...” 360). Frost says it would help to look in the right places for love. Frost criticized the message expressed in the poem and told Van Dore not to ask nature what it can’t do. Nature produces what it produces. Frost didn’t like the poem because the speaker in the poem couldn’t accept the loneliness of wilderness life, something that Frost liked best (Thompson, “Encouraging...” 361). Frost responded to “The Echo” with “The Most of It.” In this poem he discusses the most, that man can expect from nature (Thompson, “Encouraging...” 362).“Once by the Pacific” was of memories Frost had as a little boy living in California. The setting is Cliff House beach outside San Francisco around 1880 (Cook 142). This poem follows the usual methodology of Frost’s poems. The poem begins with the observation of nature, then personal opinions, and concluding with a universal idea. Frost’s writing in this poem not only created an explicit image but the spla...
