"Frost is an early proponent of "bioeconomics". He reminds his readers of the value of natural capital and ecosystem services, exploring the variability of "constant capital", recording the complex values of a natural endowment, even if it's never processed into capital, and discussing investment capital in terms of nature and creativity.
In over three-dozen poems, Frost depicts how nature, mood, love, and community matter in economic decisions. He portrays these elements — what we may group under the broad economic term "externalities" — as badly underrated factors in the measure of private value.
Lionel Trilling's famous speech at Frost's 85th birthday party complained that his poems let readers believe in and idealize a certain, uncomplicated version of America — which Trilling saw as a kind of moral and aesthetic green-washing.
Similar to a company trying to sell its products as more socially and environmentally sound than is accurate — often by telling a story of the small-farm origins of the milk, the wild sourcing of the blueberries — Trilling sees Frost's poems as "too easy" for his readers to digest. It's arguably more a problem of careless reading than of sentimental analysis."
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