Analyze the rural settings in the poems of Robert Frost
Analyze the rural settings in the poems of Robert Frost NU Or Frost s poems are local in color but universal in appeal Discuss Robert Frost is famous for his portrayal of the simple rural life of New England in his poems He is called the storyteller of New England where he lived Although his setting is local his poetry deals with universal themes like human life loneliness relations and struggles So his poetry becomes local in color but universal in appeal Let us analyze the rural settings in Frost's poems below Mending Wall In Mending Wall the rural setting is the farms of the speaker and his neighbor A stone wall separates their lands Every spring they meet and repair the stone wall by putting back the loose stones This is a rural setting of the New England countryside where Frost lived While repairing the wall the speaker talks
with his neighbor He questions the necessity of the wall He says his apple trees will never get across the wall and eat his neighbor s pines Moreover they have no cows to keep in or out So he thinks the wall is not necessary at all It only separates people However the neighbor disagrees He believes in traditional thinking His only reply is Good fences make good neighbours Through this simple act of mending a wall in a rural setting Frost has discussed universal themes like human relations tradition and separation The Death of the Hired Man In The Death of the Hired Man the whole story happens in the farmhouse of Warren and Mary at night They discuss the return of their old farm worker Silas Silas is very sick Warren is unwilling to hire Silas again because he left the farm during a busy haying season But Mary realizes that Silas has not returned to work He has come back to his close ones in his final moments She says to Warren He Silas has come home to die nbsp She feels that Silas has no other place to go not even to his rich brother a bank director So Frost uses the rural setting of a farmhouse to talk about deeper themes like home and loneliness After Apple-Picking In After Apple-Picking we see a man picking apples from the trees He is very tired after a long day of harvesting Though there are more apples on the trees he can work no more As he says nbsp For I have had too muchOf apple-picking I am overtired He is very tired and starts dreaming about apples His feet hurt from standing on the ladder The apple harvest represents not only farm life but also human ambition hard work and tiredness Everybody want a big harvest but it also makes us tired The Road Not Taken In The Road Not Taken the setting is a yellow wood A road is divided into two in the yellow wood The speaker standing there feels sad that he cannot travel both roads He says Two roads diverged in a yellow wood nbsp And sorry I could not travel both He must choose one road He does not know which will bring rewards Life is uncertain and choices are hard to make Frost utilizes this simple rural setting to explore the difficulties of making choices nbsp Birches The poem Birches is about birch trees in the countryside The poet sees the trees bent by ice storms He imagines a boy has swung on them He remembers doing the same as a child The poet wishes to escape life s troubles and feel childhood joy again The poem is set in a simple rural setting In conclusion Frost s rural settings are never just background His rural settings are connected with the people living in them No other poet of his time wrote so beautifully about the lives of modern men in a simple rural setting