In reading Robert Frost`s poetry, it will be more helpful to use his own theory of metaphor as a starting point. For Frost metaphor is the way of poetic thinking and the very essence of poetry. Frost does not assert that metaphor as a "stay against confusion" is absolute, but he believes only those who are familiar with metaphor are equipped with the insight to lead a life of success. This study is to explicate the process of making a metaphor and to show the characteristics of the metaphor by analyzing Frost`s "Directive," one of his most representative poems of metaphor for metaphor. In "Directive" Frost defines the making of metaphor as an action of quest for the way out of the present which is "too much for us." The speaker-guide "who only has at heart your getting lost" asks us to withdraw from overwhelming confusion of "now" to the dissolved simplicity of the faded remains of two lost villages. Why does the speaker seek to lose us and guide us to "lost villages"? "Lost enough to find yourself," the speaker answers. Once we are lost we can make ourselves at home and are ready to have the clear eyes for the discovery of the way out of confusion. Being lost is prelude to the making of metaphor, that is, the recovery of redemptive imagination. The height of this quest is also the height of making metaphor, which is the "attempt to say matter in terms of spirit and spirit in terms of matter." One compares the two terms, adventures into the imagination to cross them, and the results are metaphors. The road to the height of poetry is the "ladder road" which seems to promise eternal salvation by alluding to "Jacob`s ladder" but in reality confirms the limitation of metaphor`s saving capacity by betraying the fact that the ladder always stands short of heaven. "Ladder road" is a metaphor for metaphor which is "momentary stay against confusion." The speaker in "Directive" advises us at the height to "pull in your ladder road behind you / And put a sign up CLOSED to all but me." This suggests that metaphor is not open to all but exclusive to only those who have been "educated enough to find their way around in contemporary literature." Metaphor is the water of the "brook that was the water of the house," which the speaker in "Directive" asks us to drink with the "broken goblet" which he has kept hidden "Under a spell so the wrong ones can`s find it, / So can`t get saved, as Saint Mark says they mustn`t". The broken goblet, not holy Grail, is a metaphor for metaphor, more broadly, a metaphor for poetry. The concluding line of "Directive": "Drink and be whole again beyond confusion," invites us to the secret of metaphor and points us to Frost`s famous definition of poem as a "momentary stay against confusion." For Frost metaphor is the wisdom and the "directive" helpful for us to live a life of success in modern ate which has lost holy Grail.