프로스트 시에 나타난 자연의 폭력성과 야만성

Abstract

Normally critics think Frost’s poems contain two aspects of nature: One is positive and the other is negative. While nature gives people hope, and pleasure, more often, as a destructive force, it threatens human’s existence and causes feelings of despair. We can find his poems deals with positive aspect of nature in “Dust of Snow,” “Putting in the Seed,” and “Something for Hopes.” However, in this research, I focused on nature cast on negative aspect: violence and savage. We find that man suffers from the alienation, loneliness, and horror caused by the indifference of human beings in his poems “On Going Unnoticed,” “Come in,” “Once by the Pacific,” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Throughout his poems related to nature, he emphasizes the man can overcome alienation, solitude, horror, and fear caused by nature’s violence and savage. Furthermore, in his poem, “Storm Fear,” he showed that nature is portrayed as an active, bestial, and savage, and went as far as to demonstrate an intent on lure man to his destruction.