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Nature is something that everyone overlooks and barely thinks about. When you really think about it nature is always there for you. Or it is there when you do not wish it to be there. Nature is something that has always been with us and will always be with us, whether we want it to or not. Robert Frost is a poet who really wrote about nature in a way that made people understand how important it actually was. He wrote in a time that people needed to hear and read about nature and how peaceful and beautiful it is. These people had lived through two world wars and needed to see something beautiful. In wars everything seems dark, as if no one was ever going to see the light of day again. Those things would never be the same again, but Robert Frost changed that. He allowed people to realize that nature always comes full circle. That you will always see the light of day again and nature is something that you can always find if you are looking of it. Robert Frost’s poetry was very meaningful because of the way that he set his poems in nature settings in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Robert Frost really explains how nature can be something that brings people together peacefully in some of his poetry. Mending Wall is one of his poems that is an example of this. It is about two men; one has apple trees and the other has all pine trees. This is a line that is repeated throughout the poem and begins to mean a lot the more that you read. Clearly, the apple trees are not going to run across the field and destroy is pine trees, so why does he need a wall? He just wants a wall there, his father had a wall before him and he feels that a wall is something that really separates land. Land is something that is also very promenade in this poem. You ...

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...ture. This poem really shows how if you were to look at one thing in nature you could be thrown back in time when you were not the business man or computer technician, but just a swinger of birches.
Robert Frost does an excellent job when it came to incorporating nature into all of his poems and how they all were and still are so meaningful. Nature is something that we all overlook at sometime in our lives. It is something that we should never overlook though; nature is what helps us get through the hardest of times like in the 20th and 21st century when there was war. They had to get through it and hope for the best which was not that simple. Everyone remembered certain things about that era and most of those things are related to nature in some way, whether that was their lifestyle, their escape from everything that was going on or how everyone became connected.

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