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    Robert Frost writes about nature?When it comes to poetry, most people have a flock or know the name Robert Frost. Even I, who haven't studied poetry much until now, am named after him. Robert Frost and his poems had caught my attention during my research on poets. Reading his poems automatically made me think of him as a natural poet because most of them contained so much nature. As I read these poems, I discovered that most of them had a certain nature to their writing. I realized that Frost is not as much of a nature poet as I thought after watching "Voices and Vision Spotlight" and hearing Frost's opinion on being a nature poet. Robert Frost does not consider himself a nature poet and we can see this through some of his poems “Mowing”, “After Apple Picking” and “The Road Not Taken”. Robert Frost and his wife decided in 1912 to sell their farm. home in New Hampshire and move to England, where Frost wrote his first two collections of poems. Frost was originally from San Francisco where he grew up and spent most of his childhood. Although much of his writing contains natural elements, Frost does not consider himself a nature poet. “I only wrote two poems without characters. Does this make me a nature poet? Well, I don’t think so” (Frost Interview). This shows Frost's opinion that he is considered a nature poet. Most people think of Frost as a nature poet, but looking deeper into his work and then reading it, one can argue that he is not. Looking at Frost's work, we see that while much of it involves nature, it also involves a person, a person who admires, works with, or uses nature. When analyzing his writings, Frost uses nature to show a deeper lesson...... middle of paper ...... ert Frost's poems, I now see his poems in a different perspective. I once thought, like many, that Frost's poems were about nature, but now I know that Frost's true intention was to "take life by the throat" (Frost Interview). While others consider him a nature poet, Frost does not believe himself to be one and we can see his point of view in his poems, but especially in "Mowing", "After Apple-Picking" and "The Road Not Taken.” Frost actually uses nature as an analogy for human life experiences or problems that people go through. He reflects these poems in his personal life and the struggles he has gone through. After researching and reading about Robert Frost, I have become very fond of his work and enjoy delving deeper into his work trying to imagine what he really meant. While Frost uses a simple idea like nature, he relates it to human nature..