Robert Frost as a nature poet

                    Every poet has its own styles and so thus Frost.Even a person who reads one of Frost's poems just for pleasure may notice the high amount of elements of nature in his poems. Frost has so often written about the rural landscape and wildlife that at first anyone reading his poetry thinks he is surely a nature poet. Some of the poems which he had vividly described the nature are "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening", "Nothing", "Gold can stay", "Mowing", etc. Briefly, Frost's  poems seem simple at the very first beginning but once you begin analyzing them, many deep psychological meanings appear. With this in mind, Frost may be considered as a pastoral poet as he uses nature as a vehicle to arrive in human beings. 
                    In his poem "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening", Frost has described about a man on a journey who has to go on it although he is admired by the beauty of nature when he stops by some woods and watches them. The poet here suggests that this man is on his own in as isolated area as even the owner of the woods does not live nearly, but in the town. The man is aware that the owner will not be there perhaps suggesting  that he was looking for time alone. Frost's very first sentence already talks about the woods. 'Whose woods these are we don't know?' Also in the poem he states that the narrator likes to sit and watch the snow. Snow is feeling up the woods, suggesting suffocation and a feeling of entrapment. He is also a nature lover. In the second stanza  Frost refers back to the woods. He must also like ice, because he brings ice and cold up a lot in his poems. Once again Frost brings ice up when he mentions flake and cold wind.
                   In the second stanza the reader is again reminded that the man is in the middle of nowhere:
                                   'My little horse must think it queer
                                    To stop without a farmhouse near.'
                    
                  As Frost mentions the narrator's horse that emphasizes the point that they are alone in an odd place especially as it is 'the darkest evening of the year'. Everything is static as even the lake s frozen. The horse does not feel secure and this may be because of the stillness:
                                   'The only other sound's the sweep
                                    Of easy wind and downy flake'.

 The long vowel sounds accentuate the quiet stillness, as only the weather is slightly  disturbing the complete silence.
                    It is the last stanza that tells the reader the most about the true meaning of this poem. We learn that the narrator finds the woods attractive:
                                   'The woods are lovely, dark and deep'.

Here frost uses an oxymoron to create the tone and uses alliteration on 'dark and deep'. The traveler finds the woods beautiful yet scary. Clearly the traveler enjoys the solitude of the woods and the darkness. However he has to stay in the real world :

                                 'But I have promises to keep 
                                  And miles to go before I sleep 
                                 And miles to go before I sleep'.

Once again Frost uses plain language to convey a wider meaning. Although the narrator is drawn to the woods, he has promises to keep in the real world. Perhaps he is a doctor or in delivering something or has a family to care for. He will not sleep for a long time. Maybe he is serious and is depressed and the darkness attracts him, as it is a way to escape. Commitments to other people keep us going, even the traveler who is really just a bloke on a horse. He himself has to travel life's journey and I feel that this poem may suggest a lack of faith and then that he was looking for some meaning, perhaps God and does not convert but continues to go on. On the other hand, he may even be contemplating suicide for the ultimate escape, which would be ending life's journey.
                  'Mowing' is one of the finest lyrics written by the Robert Frost. Nature is beautifully depicted in this poem. Beside the wood no sound except that of the mower -poets long scythe was to be heard. The scythe seems whispering. The poet knows nothing  is what the scythe whispered. He brings guessing about his whispering - that it might have been about the burning rays of the sun. This might have caused its resulting, not raised. Nothing could be compared to the sincere love that went into the act of mowing, except the truth of labor. In brief, love and labor  alone can complete with each other in cutting the grass and keeping it in rows. The mower saw before him bunches of ripe, hence weak , flowers falling when he was mowing. He was intensely delighted by the beauty of the flowers and was able to scare a bright green snake. The great truth is that work makes man's life full of sweet dreams. The mower's delight springs entirely from doing and the sweetest dream is the truth.Again he remembers the whispering scythe and leaves the grass to turn dry.
                    The poem highlights the dignity of labor. The poet completely identifies himself with his work. At the time  of "Mowing' the poet knew only about his 'long scythe', 'the heat of the sun', 'his labor' and 'the hay'. This sonnet may be read along with 'Birches'. In Birches, the poet says that "Earth's  the right place for love". By telling that the grass is cut and hay is left he wants to explain that diversities in life may have some hidden purpose. Mowing is the poem in which through the scythe, the farmer and nature. Robert Frost underlines the significance of work, and which at the same time, contains artistic excellence. 
                     Thus through both the poems of Robert Frost explore the themes of nature and the human emotion love . Through the poem 'Mowing' Frost brings our interpretation and understanding of a life of a farmer working his field to a much deeper level. The poem 'Stopping by the Woods on the Snowy Evening' is about a man on a journey who has to go on it although he is admired by the beauty of nature when he stops by some woods and watches them. Many words related to nature are used in the poem which are 'woods', 'snow', 'horse', 'lake', 'winds', 'flakes'. 
                     In a nutshell, depicting the beauty of nature alone has not been Frost's aim. Rather, he wanted to deliver a learning through his poems. here lies his distinctness. His own definition  of the aim of poetry - "It begins in delight and ends in  wisdom". - holds the truth in the present poems "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" begins with a picturization of a landscape which the poet finds beautiful and enjoyable and ends with a great message of duty in human life. Frost's poems shows deep appreciation of natural world and sensibility and because of that readers are easy to follow the poet into deeper truths without being burned with pedantry. He learn so many things from nature and life and this statement proves that what he feels about nature;
               
                          "In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life;
                            that it goes on..."
                                                                                     - Robert Frost