The Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost The poetry of Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost contains similar themes and ideas. Both poets attempt to romanticize nature and both speak of death and loneliness. Although they were more than fifty years apart, these two seem to be kindred spirits, poetically speaking. Both focus on the power of nature, death and loneliness. The main way these two differ is in their different use of tone. The power of nature is a recurring theme in the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost. Dickinson uses this theme in her poem "'Nature' is what we see -." The power of nature is strongly represented in this poem by Dickinson's articulation of what the speaker sees in nature. "'Nature' is what we see -... / Nature is what we feel -... / Nature is what we know -" (277 lines 1,5,9). Nature is everything to man, it appeals to all the senses. Dickinson also says in this poem, “So helpless is our wisdom / To its simplicity” (277). The speaker says that nature has such great power that one cannot even understand its simplest ways. In the... center of the sheet......466.-------- "Birches. " American literature. New York: Scribner Laidlaw. 1989. p472,473.-------- American Literature "Fire and Ice". New York: Scribner Laidlaw. 1989. p466.Freeman, Margaret. "Metaphor Making Meaning: Dickinson's Conceptual Universe." Journal of Pragmatics 24 (1995): 643-666. Nesteruk, Peter. “The Many Deaths of Emily Dickinson.” Emily Dickinson journal 6.1 (1997): 25-44.White, Fred D. "`Sweet Skepticism of the Heart': Science in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson." University literature 19.1 (February 1992): 121-128.