First and foremost, we have to remember that Robert Frost believed in naturalism. He was the type of person that believed that nature played an important part in our daily lives and that as humans we had to try our best to be in tune with nature. Frost uses a lot of imagery in his poems and he uses a traditional form of writing poems. Personally, I find Robert Frost poems extremely difficult to read but I have learned that we can sometimes interpret poems our own way. While reading his poems, I found Mending Wall and After Apple Picking to be especially interesting. I found that there was a lot of imagery, but I also found that these poems had a lot of meaning.
After carefully reading Mending Wall and doing research on Frost, I came to find out that humanity can relate to this poem. Mending Wall shows us that a neighbor is trying to fix the wall year after year because of the repairs that it needs. Frost continues to tell the neighbor that he doesn't see the reason as to why he is trying to fix this wall. It seems that Frost is trying to let his neighbor know that it is best to leave the wall alone. If the wall keeps mending year after year, then it is obvious that the wall does not belong there. As a human being, I can relate to this in every aspect. The poem can be applied to social, political, and personal relationships. As humans, we sometimes put barriers between us believing that these barriers will have a positive effect on us. However, these barriers can sometimes be negative and they can hurt us, causing us to weaken our relationships with others. When we soon realize that these barriers don't work, we then comprehend that it is better to improve our relationships with others rather than to stay distant. We realize that it is better to work out our problems, wether they are cultural, social, ethnic, etc. By doing so we become one with nature and in the end we are able to lead better lives and we are able to understand each other.
After Apple Picking is another interesting poem that I found hard to understand at the beginning. After reading it several times, I came to the conclusion that the poem was talking about opportunities. Frost states that apples appear and disappear. This to me makes it clear that in life we all have opportunities. These opportunities are like apples in the sense that we choose which ones we want. Frost then mentions that there were ten thousand fruit to touch and that he grew overtired of picking them. In life, opportunities constantly show up. We pick some, we let many go, and in the end we sometimes grow tired of the decisions that we have made. However, we sometimes make the mistake of letting some go, and we sometimes choose the ones that we believed to be the correct choice. In letting some opportunities go, we realize that those same opportunities will never be back and that they have lost their worth, sometimes causing us to feel remorse and in turn causing us to lose our sleep.
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