The symbolism in Robert Frost's poems (The full version)

[chriswang622]

In the process of reading, I noticed Robert Frost is adept in using symbolism to express his opinion and emotion. He may tells a story or describes a scene in his poems to symbolize some deep meaning and they are even unlike poems sometimes.  As he said he was not a nature poet and he talked about human. Many symbols in his poem reflects human's life. In his poem In Hardwood Groves, he used almost whole length to talk about leaves' life and it is like a transmigration. Leaves fell down and became nutrition to nourish the root. However, at the end of the poem, he said" However it is in some other world/ I know that this is the way in ours" He transformed the topic of leaves to the thinking of human beings .Human's lives have the same inheritance as leaves'. His another poem After Apple Picking also used a clear symbol. I considered the apple in this poem is the symbol of human's desire. He said he was not satisfied and sought more apples. He also mentioned "I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired." He is overtired because he is exhausted due to his desire. During the discussion in class we found if we use desire to replace apple we can explain the poem well. 

The question is :

1. Do all specific stories and imagery in his poem have the deep meaning and are they all the symbols that embody human's world? Or there are some exceptions?

2.Why he used symbols in the poem instead of talking about it directly? Does the using of symbol have some advantages?

(My answer is some symbols can made readers understand the sense of human being more easily and increase the readability. But why there are some symbols that are hard to explain and comprehend?)