Questioning Nature: A Study of Death and Isolation in Selected Nature Poems by Robert Frost
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1301.15Keywords:
death, isolation, nature poetry, psychic exhaustion, FrostAbstract
This study aims to discuss the themes of death and isolation in selected nature poems by Robert Frost, the reasons behind this odd employment of nature, the relationship between death and isolation, and how one begets the other. The assumptions and principles of psychoanalytical and biographical approaches provide the theoretical framework for this dissertation, namely, through examining the life of Frost, as well as psychic exhaustion and traumas which reveal the unconscious motives behind his use of the themes of death and isolation in his nature poems. To answer the study’s questions, it focuses on studying those poems by going over the symbols and figures of speech that present the challenging, gloomy picture of nature, which single out Frost from other American and English poets’ images of nature.
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