Frost and Death
... In Robert Frost’s poetry, he uses symbols found in nature to express the meaning of his poems. Robert Frost was not like other poets in his time; he wrote about nature like the Romantics. ... Robert Frost dwelt upon death in a lot of his poetry. ... In his poem “Come In,” Frost tells the reader that people must resolve all of their conflicts before they die. As in all of Frost’s poetry, he uses strong symbols from nature to represent death. As in some of his other poems, he uses the woods and darkness to represent death. He also uses the amount of light and the time of day to represent life and death. The bird, or thrush, in the poem and its music is a symbol for how death calls out to people. ... Frost uses the woods and darkness to symbolize death. This is a common symbol in many of Frost’s other poems. In “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” Frost uses the woods to symbolize death as well. ... ” This symbolizes that the speaker is coming near death or feels that he is going to die soon. ... In line thirteen, Frost gives even more emphasis to the darkness of the woods when he refers to how the trees look in the darkness as “the pillared dark.