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Many times in poetry the ideas, values, and raw beauty concerning nature are used to symbolize a deeper meaning in the poet’s thoughts. Often, the symbolization can be interpreted as a part of human life, be it values, physical aspects, or dreams. The great American poets Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson utilized this manner of writing in a great deal of their poetry. Emily Dickinson, in my opinion, had more obvious and well-expressed symbolisms in her poetry than those of Robert Frost. Dickinson expresses the forces of nature as they relate to human emotions in poem number 249. When speaking of her longing to be embraced by the subject of her poem, she states: “Futile—the Winds/To a Heart in port”. (Baym, 175) Dickinson may be alluding that wind is a force trying to move or break apart the love between the two people, but that wind has no effect on love. In another one of her poems, number 465, the poet describes a possible method of her death. The line, “I Heard a fly buzz—when I died,” (Baym, 465) is Dickinson’s way of saying that nature still goes on even after a lif