Robert Frost wrote his poems in the early to mid-20th century, and this was during a time of tremendous change in the rural community. This was a very influential point for people in America, due to the drastic changes of a rural community. People were used to living on isolated farms, without grocery stores and everything depended on agricultural work. Children would grow up immersed in nature and use the world around them as a playground. With the new rural community people moved away from isolation and into mass groups in cities, which disposed of nature as a playground for young children. It seemed that nature was being pushed out of the picture as the world grew, but Robert Frost wanted to include the beauty and importance of nature in his poems. There is something poetic about nature and Robert Frost always mentioned it in his poems. In Frost's poems, Birches, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and Out, Out-, he includes the importance for children to play in trees, to take in all the nature around them, and to stop and admire nature sometimes. In Birches, Frost recalls childhood memories of swinging on willow branches and begs for his life to start over again to experience the same thing; it is important that children experience nature in this way. The children are the youngest and liveliest in the community, and all this brings a lot of energy. The best way to shut out the energy is to clear it from your system, and a strong tree branch to swing on might be the best way. Not only do they have a lot of fun and get rid of excess energy, but they experience nature in a completely new way. Robert Frost looked at the falling branches with an optimistic look, for he understood that...... middle of paper ......the boy who died so suddenly in Frost's poem, Out, Out-. Over the past one hundred years, people on this earth had slowly killed nature. Nature is where they come from and where all happiness truly exists. Robert Frost was aware of this problem and wrote about nature in his poems to help people realize how important it is in their lives. Slowly people tried to make an effort to save nature, and all thanks to the great experiences they had with nature. Without nature there would be no peace, science or beauty in the world. Today there are many people who work closely with nature and they have had a huge influence on how people will treat the earth in the future. Through all the hard work of people like Frost and modern people, the land will be preserved for future generations to experience nature the way their ancestors did..
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