Robert Frost is known for his nature poems, he writes about trees, flowers and animals. This is a common misconception, Robert Frost is more than someone who writes a happy poem about nature. The elements of nature he uses symbolize something more, something darker and something that needs a lot of attention to discover. Flowers may not always represent beauty in Robert Frost's poetry. Symbolism is present in every line of the nature poet's poems. The everyday objects present in his poems provide the reader with an alternative perspective of the world. Robert Frost uses all the elements of poetry to describe the darker side of nature. After analyzing Poem Mending Wall and After Apple Picking it is clear that nature plays a dark and destructive role for Robert Frost. This dark side of Frost's poetry may have been inspired by the harsh life he lived. Vivid imagery, symbolism and metaphors make his poetry elusive, through these elements Frost is able to give nature its dark side. It is these elements that must be analyzed to discover the dark meaning hidden in Roberts Frost's poems. Lines that seemed simple at first become more complex after the reader analyzes the poem using elements of poetry. For example, in the poem Mending Wall it seems that Robert Frost is talking about two men arguing over a wall, but upon closer inspection the reader realizes that the poem is about the things that separate one man from another, that can be seen as destructive. In After Apple Picking, the darkness of nature is present through the man who wishes to sleep, which is the symbol of death. It may seem like the poem is about apple picking and hard work, but it is actually about the nature of death. Poets use the events of their lives as... a medium of paper... y. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. Print.Conder, John J. Frost: Centennial Essays. Jackson: University of Mississippi, 1974. Print.Frost, Robert and Robert Faggen. Robert Frost's Notebooks. Cambridge, MA: Belknap of Harvard UP, 2006. Print.Kemp, John C. Robert Frost and New England: The Poet as Regionalist. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1979. Print. Lentricchia, Frank. Robert Frost: Modern Poetics and the Landscapes of the Self. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1975. Print. Lindsay Nash. “Fixing the Wall: Playing the Neighborhood Order Game.” Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 5th ser. 21.1 (2009): n. page Network. December 1, 2013. .Parini, Jay. Robert Frost: A Life. New York: Henry Holt, 1999. Print.Richardson, Mark. The ordeal of Robert Frost: the poet and his poetics. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1997. Print.