Frost's use of setting in his poetry has labeled Frost as a nature poet. In fact Frost is often considered one of America's best example of a nature poet. Donald Greiner points out that Frost "writes about birch trees and rose pogonias, mending walls, mowing, and going for water"(207). Frost's use of nature and setting in his poetry may be argued that it is linked to his life in New England. Frost's descriptions of trees and forests and woods are very typical of the stereotypical New England Landscape.

Spending much of his life in rural New Hampshire many argue that the time he spent there is responsible for Frost's ability to incorporate the use of nature

and setting into his poetry. Frost once wrote "I might say the core of all my writing was probably the five free years I had there on the farm down the road a mile or two from

Setting is the way that an author expresses and conveys the time and place of the poem. By describing and giving clues about the setting, the author can effectively convey the message of the work. Robert Frost the author of “The Road Not Taken” and “Passing by Woods on a Snowy Evening” uses a setting of nature to communicate his main ideas in his poetry.

where everything is on the line. Lentricchia points out that “soon, if we do not know where we are going, we no longer know where we are” (87). This is true in the case of the traveler. The struggle between his choice of paths may also represent the struggle inside his life.

Many years ago “Robert Frost was quoted as saying that “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” contained all he ever knew and that he would like to print it with “Forty pages of footnotes” (Rosenberry 526). In Frost’s poem the use of woods can be argued to have a much deeper meaning than the literal sense. Greiner points out that “the majority of Frost’s symbolic poems focuses on man’s relationship with nature. Yet, though nature threatens man with destruction, its very challenge creates courage, and so life, within him”(209). This is one possible reason that Frost focuses so much on the nature in the setting. The idea that life evolves from the struggle between man and nature which eventually leads to the growth of man. “Nature exists so far as man is concerned-to be fought against; but not to be destroyed,… for that would be the destruction

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