According to Auden, the farmer poet Frost`s nature poems are written not for urban, but for rural people. It is true that the concept of nature poetry was not necessary before the rise of industrial urbanization and the consequent decay of agricultural rurality. Robert Frost has succeeded, in the 20th-century industrial ate of urbanity, in creating the myth of a nature poet who still tills his own land. But are Frost`s nature poems really not written for urbanites but only for ruralites? John F. Lynen in his The Pastoral Art of Robert Frost(1960) defines Frost`s nature poetry as a pastoral mode in which the poet is always conscious of the contrast between the rural world and a more sophisticated urban life, so that the pastoral poem is a means of commenting on urban problems. Frost`s retreat to a less-complex rural world is neither escapism nor agrarianism, but, rather, an effort to gain the perspective needed to comment on contemporary life. Frost`s retreat to rurality is evidently strategic. As we see in his "Into My Own", his desire to escape into a rural world, represented in this poem as "those dark trees", is to withdraw into the natural, wild irresponsible area of the self to recover the self which has been eroded by contracts and obligations and the demands of contemporary life. Frost masked himself as a farmer poet to satisfy his own need to establish his own identity as a poet, to keep his own self intact from the anxiety of influence of so-called high modernism on his career as a poet, and to meet his own desire to differentiate himself from such modernist poets as T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.