This thesis explores Maple＇ s pursuit of her name＇ s meaning in Robert Frost＇ s poem Maple from the perspective of truth, language and the conflict between experience and logic. According to Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and Slavoj Zizek, truth is subjective, plastic and contingent, which implies the impossibility of recovering the experience of Maple＇ s mother; the means by which one approaches what has happened in the past is always symbolized and metaphorical, which suggests the impossibility of putting the in- tuition of Maple＇ s husband...
