Robert Frost Figurative Language

In each of his poems, Robert Frost uses multiple stylistic devices and figurative language to convey certain theme, mostly having to do with nature, that ultimately show his modernist style and modernist views on life.
In the poem “Mowing,” the speaker of the poem is mowing his field trying to make grass. While doing this, he ponders the sound that his scythe is trying to “whisper” (Frost 26). The poem is organized into two sections: an octet and a sextet. In the octet, Frost mainly focuses on the sound that the scythe is trying to make by using personification of the scythe. The speaker, in the first part, is trying to describe the “whispering of the scythe” (26) as something very abstract and imaginative. However, in the sextet, he completely
Both roads are equally “worn” (103) and laid with untrodden leaves. The speaker faces a decision and decides on one of the roads. After making this decision, he says that he will choose the other road next time, but he knows that will be very unlikely. Therefore, in the future, the speaker will recreate the scene and claim that he chose the less traveled road. In this poem, Frost uses mostly strict masculine rhymes such as “wood,” “claim,” and “black” (103) with an iambic tetrameter that creates a rhythm with a strong beat and each line is stopped completely. This resembles the way the fork in the road completely stops the speaker in his tracks and the rhythm mimics his walking down the road toward the unknown. Additionally, a fork in the road represents a crisis or important decision on a life road and the speaker is free to choose whichever path he wants, but without knowing what he is choosing between because both roads are equally worn and both lead to an unknown. The speaker also states that in the future, before saying that he chose the road less traveled, he will “sigh” (103) which indicates that not even he believes it because inside he will always remember the equal roads at the fork in the “yellow woods” and that his choice was just based on chance and not knowledge of any real differences. Therefore, there is really no right decision; only the chosen road and the other road.
Frost states “Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor” (59). This line represents Robert Frost because many of Frost’s poems deal with change, such as in “Out, Out” and “Home Burial,” and the change of nature and of people. According to the analysis of the poems of Frost, he seems to believe in reality, facts, and truth rather than fantasy or imagination. Therefore, in this quote, Frost is stating that change in life is due to the truths of life becoming “in and out of favor.” These truths become so because of their nature and what is meant to happen. Nature and truth are two things that Frost is ultimately all