figurative language, nature and vacation are all part of Robert Frost's poem “The Mountain”. Frost uses countless similes and metaphors comparing different things throughout the poem. The mountains in the poem are compared to the wall for a sense of protection in this poem. Nature is included in almost all of Frost's poems. Nature in this poem is used with mountains and lakes. Another theme included in this poem is holidays. The speaker is on a journey, which he doesn't seem to like but then at the top of the mountain he finds a fountain that he never sees and now wants to visit. Figurative language is something that is included in all types of writing. The mountain is so large that the shadow in this poem can obscure the entire city. In this poem Frost uses many similes and metaphors that compare and contrast the mountain to a wall. Line 4 supports the fact of the shadow covering the city. Lines 5 and 6 show one of the comparisons, which makes it seem like the mountains protect the city from danger. The mountain seems to protect the city from danger, but in reality this is not the case. The figurative language of similes that Frost uses throughout the poem compares one of the main things shown at the beginning of the poem, which is the shadow, to a wall. A wall is something that can protect, support, keep things in place, prevent things from moving in and out of the area. The mountain in this case is used as protection from the wind in this case of history. The wall may seem as if it protects the city from danger but later in the poem it shows that it is different. Lines 22 and 23 look as if the wall doesn't do a good job of protecting the city from the night wind. The wind seems to make itself felt and the only......middle of paper......around or I don't know anything about the landscape. Line 21 of the poem uses the word “Sojourn” which in this case means temporary stay. The speaker is not in a permanent place to live. It could be seen as if the speaker was on vacation or lived there but was planning to move. The Mountain by Robert Frost is a poem that talks about nature and travel and there is a lot of figurative language within it. The figurative language of the poem brings everything together to compare it to the elements of nature and man-made things. For example, the mountain that acts as a wall, yet is only the shadow. Then again this Frost poem doesn't have to be made into something complex, it could simply be Frost on holiday and he is comparing and contrasting everything he has learned. All things extracted from the poem come together to make Frost use the elements of nature doing man-made work.