What is the meaning of poem The Telephone By Robert Frost?

The theme of The Telephone by Robert Frost is the way a simple object a telephone in this case can serve as a reminder of important changes that have occurred in history, particularly with regard to how we communicate

In this way, The Telephone reflects Frost s interest in history and also demonstrates he way he uses objects and natural images as symbols representing the complexities of human lives The fact that there telephone wire, the "strand of steel between (one s life ) and Eden" suggests both physical distance(as in long distance calling that was becoming available during the time he poem was written as well as emotional alienation or distance from a simpler state the poem s final two line,

Yet we who in this present tense

Stand near a turning know to our content

suggest the knowledge gained at the turn of the twentieth century and how it shapes people s understandings of themselves, how and how technology changed history