Loneliness.
Sadness.
Winter.
Death.
Decay.
Frost- bitten.
An inspirational message was never the goal for Robert Frost. No, this man and his deep emotions sat in a lonely house in the woods right off of a road less traveled because he wanted to keep it that way-- lonely. While this narrative isn't suggesting the true life of Robert Frost, it is suggesting a theme for his poetry. He went through death, depression, and madness and his poems reflect and evoke those awful emotions on their readers. As a rule (as with all rules, there are exceptions), Frost's speakers are either alone physically and/or mentally. One such poem is "An Old Man's Winter Night." In this poem, an older man who lived on a farm by himself was being observed by the nature outside who "looked darkly in at him." Words such as "empty, "loss" "darkly" "no one but himself" "frost" "snow" evoke immense emotions, which Frost clearly wants his reader to feel. You see a lonely man looking out, and nature looking in.
A. E Stallings wrote a poem titled "Whethering" that carries many reminiscent themes from Frost. The speaker of the poem is "Haunted" from "something formless that fidgets beyond the window's benighted mirror." Although she has kids, they are asleep and she is clearly alone, thinking of "choices that we didn't make and never wanted, as though by the dead and misbegotten." A similar emotion of loneliness and frailty is exposed. A frost-bitten poem of lonely, miserable death and regret.
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