Title Robert Frost was born in California; however, critics would collectively agree that he identified with New England more than his roots of California where he lived for eleven years till his father’s death. Frost was a farmer, which could explain his need to write poems that involved nature, but he was not necessarily a good farmer. He was a better writer than anything else which caused him to have great acclaim in England, where he had moved to in 1912 with his family. He would return back when critics praised his work in the United States. Frost would also lose two children to suicide and mental illness. Frosts tendency to write about nature was related to the land of New England, which many thought “was the heart of America” (Norton). Nature was a notable part of Frost’s poems; however, he did not see nature as this supreme being, rather he saw nature as “no expression, nothing to express” (Norton). Cleanth Brooks, an influential …show more content…
The poem presents “Nature’s first green” and calls it “gold.” Throughout the rest of the poem this gold begins to go away and ultimately cannot stay. The poem goes through a natural cycle of life. Not everything can stay in life. Fagan also analyzes this poem in Critic Companion to Robert Frost: A literary Reference to His life and Work. Fagan says “There can be no permanence to nature and living things as the season illustrate.” The seasons always change and that is nature and a part of human life. Nothing is permeant in life to man or nature. This anti-permanence Frost reflects provides evidence of the realism he conveys in his poetry. Frost writes in poem, “But only so an hour.” Nature provides beauty, but temporarily (Fagan). The idea that everything good in life can stay or the idea of permanence is a false ideal Frost realistically points out. Nature even knows this through its natural seasonal