Robert Frost is known for his nature poems, he writes about trees, flowers and animals. It's a common misconception that Robert Frost is much more than someone who writes a happy poem about nature. The elements of nature he uses symbolize something more, something darker, and something that requires close attention to discover. Flowers do not always represent beauty in Robert Frost's poetry. Symbolism is present in every verse of the nature poet's poems. The everyday objects present in his poems offer the reader an alternative perspective of the world. Robert Frost uses all elements of poetry to describe the darker side of nature. After analyzing Poem Mending Wall and After Apple Picking, it is clear that nature plays a dark and destructive role for Robert Frost. This dark side of Frost's poetry could have been inspired by the harsh life he lived. Vivid imagery, symbolism and metaphors make his poetry elusive, through these elements Frost is able to give nature its dark side. It is these elements that must be analyzed to discover the hidden dark meaning of Roberts Frost's poems. Lines that seemed simple at first become more complex after the reader analyzes the poem using poetic elements. For example, in the poem Mending Wall, it appears that Robert Frost is talking about two men arguing about a wall, but upon closer inspection the reader realizes that the poem is about the things that separate the man's man, which can be considered destructive. In After Apple Picking, the darkness of nature is present through the man who needs to sleep, a symbol of death. It may seem like the poem is about apple picking and hard work, but it's actually about the nature of death. Poets use the events of their lives as a middle of paper......y. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. Print.Conder, John J. Frost: Centennial Essays. Jackson: University of Mississippi, 1974. Print. Frost, Robert and Robert Faggen. The notebooks of Robert Frost. Cambridge, MA: Belknap of Harvard UP, 2006. Print. Kemp, John C. Robert Frost and New England: The Poet as Regionalist. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1979. Print. Lentrichia, Frank. Robert Frost: Modern Poetics and Landscapes of the Self. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1975. Print. Lindsay Nash. “Fixing the Wall: Playing the Game of Neighborhood Order.” Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 5th ser. 21.1 (2009): n. page. Internet. December 1, 2013. .Parini, Jay. Robert Frost: A Life. New York: Henry Holt, 1999. Print. Richardson, Mark. The ordeal of Robert Frost: the poet and his poetics. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1997. Print.