Theme of Alienation in Frost's Poem

Man: His Solitariness Robert Frost has written on almost every subject, but alienation and isolation, both emotional and physical, are the major themes of his poetry. His, ‘book of people’, North of Boston, is full of solitaries who are lonely and isolated for one reason or the other. Frost is a great poet of boundaries and barriers which divide men from men and come in the way of communication, and so result in lack of understanding and friction. Man is not only isolated from other man, but Frost pictures him as also alone and solitary in an impersonal and unfeeling environment.
Separateness from the Stars This concern with barriers, barriers which result in alienation and loneliness, is a predominant theme in Frost’s poetry. There are barriers at least of five kinds. First, there is the great natural barrier, the void, the space, which separates man from the stars. Man foolishly tries to bridge this gap, but all his efforts in this respect are of no avail. Such efforts only make him more conscious of his own littleness. As he tells us in the Lessons for Today, the contemplation of the ghast heights of the sky has a belittling effect on man and he is overwhelmed by a terrifying sense of his own solitariness in the universe. In the poem entitled Stars, the poet tells us how man gets attracted by nature only to be disillusioned by it. Here, the stars shining in the sky at midnight do not lend any glory or state to the gazer. Rather, they produce a note of disenchantment:
“And yet with neither love nor hate
Though the stars like some snow-white
Mineroas’ snow-like marble eyes
Without the gift of sight.
Elsewhere, in Astro Metaphysical, love of looking at the changing skies leads to an unwelcome situation:
Till I have reeled and stumbled
From looking up too much,
And fallen and been humbled
To wear to Crutch”.
In another poem, we find how clever human plans to establish relationship with nature are thwarted. The protagonist of The Star-Splitter, purchases a