Human and Nature in Robert Frost

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Human and Nature
Robert Frost’s poem, “Stopping by Woods in a Snowy Evening,” explicates the journey of a man in the woods. The man is admiring the natural scene; although, he knows his personal goals have been neglected. He admires the cold evening and wants to stay in woods. However, he realizes that he has to go to fulfil his desires. So, he neglects his wish of watching the beautiful scene of a snowy evening. Fagan states: “The poem is not simply a description of a natural scene but is about a person experiencing the scene” (Fagan 1). Robert Frost’s poem illustrates the relationship between human and nature. Despite of the fact, Nature grabs mankind’s attention to its beauty; human beings prefer their worldly responsibilities and repel the nature's attractions.
The beauty of nature acts like a barrier in human’s ways. It attracts the man towards itself and delays his personal goals. In this poem, the man is attracted to a snowy evening, which forces him to stop and admires the magnificent insight of woods. Imagine trees cover with the white snow, the silence in woods, whistles of wind, and falling snow flakes touches the earth. As he stops in woods, he thinks about the owner of woods. He thinks of the land owner who is not present to see him trespassing. He feels safe as the owner “will not see” him “stopping” in woods “to watch his woods fill up the snow” (lines 3-4). It explains his careless behavior and desire to admire the natural beauty. According to Thomas March, it is not an important fact the man knows the owner, but he is far away from woods. His description of the scene deals with the privacy at that time (March 1). The man loves to stay in woods in spite of a fact that his destination is somewhere else.
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