still has a long way to go in his life before he can take a rest But I have promises to keep And miles to go before I sleep Here Frost has shown the conflict of the human heart the wish to rest and the need to continue life s journey This is the conflict of every modern man Here Frost uses the simple pastoral setting of snowy woods in the evening to focus on the modern man s heart Cruelty and Indifference In Out Out Frost describes a tragic accident at a rural farmhouse The poem is set in rural Vermont A young boy is cutting wood with a buzz saw when his hand is accidentally cut He dies soon after But others soon return to their daily affairs Frost writes And they since they Were not the one dead turned to their affairs The poem shows the cruelty of fate and the indifference of busy modern life Loss and Change In The Oven Bird a bird sings in the forest during late summer The bird sings that The early petal-fall is past It means spring s beauty is gone and soon autumn fall will come The bird feels that nature is losing its beauty The bird s question What to make of a diminished thing is the poet s own question about modern life The bird s song expresses the concern of every modern man that time passes beauty fades youth turns to old age So Frost uses the pastoral setting of birds and trees to express the sadness of change and loss in modern times Hard Work and Reality Mowing shows the speaker cutting grass with his scythe He listens to its whispering He imagines what it might be saying He imagines the scythe saying the sweetest thing is not dreams but truth The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows Frost shows that honest work gives meaning to life In a world where many people dream of easy success the poet finds peace in simple real work This is a modern idea told through a country scene Inner Emptiness Frost describes a snowy field at night The field is silent empty and completely covered in snow He feels lonely The loneliness includes me unawares He realizes that the emptiness inside him is even greater than the empty spaces in the universe Here the scene is rural and quiet but the feeling is emotional and modern The speaker also feels fear and isolation in the lonely snow-covered field This shows the modern man s inner fear and isolation In conclusion Frost s poems use country life farms woods and fields as simple backgrounds But behind these calm pictures he speaks of modern man s struggle work duty loss loneliness and the search for meaning His poetry is pastoral in form but modern in spirit