Robert Frost Used Many Elements Of Nature To Show Fear And Uncertainty

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a search for the modern Demiurge named Evolution in hope of learning the secrets of life, but when finally found him all he was rewarded was indifference, atheism, and laughter� (Thompson 327). The uncertainty lies in the Demiurge�s answer of indifference and atheism. This answer may inspire some fear but much of it resides in the face of Evolution, an element of nature.
Another poem that conveys fear and uncertainty is �Into My Own.� In lines 1 through 4 Frost writes:

One of my wishes is that those dark trees,
So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze,
Were not, as �twere, the merest mask of gloom,
But stretched away unto the edge of doom.

The dark trees are scary enough but to enhance things they wear a mask of gloom. This is clearly an example of fear. The trees being stretched away unto the edge of doom shows the uncertainty and unknown. Booth states �Robert Frost�s deeds have been the words of dark poems, narrative and lyric: poems that explore those ...

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