Synoptic view of Frost poems.

          

                                            " Tree at My Window"

                                                                                by Robert Frost

In the poem "Tree at My Window" the poet Frost is dwelling upon both the harmony and disharmony between man and nature.As the poet says in broad day light, he can see the tree at his window clearly , but in the evening when the window pane of glass or the window shutter is lowered,he can't see the tree clearly. He can only see the silent shade of the tree, the shadowy figure of the tree.But the poet does not want their relation to be snapped. Some relationship has already developed between him   

and the tree at his window. And he wants the relationship to remain unbroken.

In the evening when the window shutter is lowered, the poet sees the shadowy figure of the tree at his window.He then has a feeling that the tree at his window is like a vision of his dream that has come 

  

out of the ground and is flying towards the sky and his visionary/ dreamy figure of the tree overwhelms his imagination .Anything shadowy and silent is more appealing to his imagination than anything clearly seen and heard as if moonlight is more romantic than broad day light. Anything shadowy is like the ocean of bliss where he can get drowned and spiritually regenerated. But he can't get lost because his practical sense is still working.The poet has also the feeling that the shadowy silent shape of the tree can appeal to imagination more than the actual tree itself.The tree talks to him through the rustling sound of its leaves and twigs.But at nightfall the shadowy figure of the tree talks to him more touchingly and eloquently than the rustling sound of its leaves and twigs.The poet dwells upon both the points of similarity and dissimilarity between the tree at his window and himself. Both the poet and the tree at his window have seen each other their moments of peace and happiness, their moments of loneliness and isolation, their of ecstasy and frustration.Both  have got the taste of the comedy and the tragedy of the life, the bitter sweets of life.Finally, the poet says that fate has woven them with the same tread of experience. But while the experiences of the tree bitter or sweet are mainly physical, those of the poet are mainly spiritual. While the tree is tossed and tormented by the storm and fury of outer weather , the poet is tossed and tormented by the storm and fury of inner weather. Both are enchained. The farmer is enchained by physical suffering, the latter is enchained by spiritual suffering. Frost doesn't have any illusion about any object of nature, about anything in life. He sees both the bright and dark aspects of things. He sees both the harmony and the disharmony between himself and the tree at his window, that is, between man and nature.The poet is here like and unlike Wordsworth. While Wordsworth dwells upon the harmony between man and nature. Frost dwells upon the gap, the disharmony, the barrier between man and nature, and also man and man.