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The purpose of this study is to show that a study of literature has a place within the range of linguistic studies. It is commonly thought that poetic language is beyond ordinary language; that it is something essentially different, special, heigher, with extraordinary tools and techniques like metaphors, an instrument beyond the reach of someone who just talks. The advent of the cognitive linguistics laid foundations for the discussion of metaphor. Lakoff and Johnson(1980) argue that metaphor is deeply pervaded in everyday language, thoughts and behaviors, and not just poetic language. These cognitive linguistics say that metaphor is a way of understanding and experiencing unfamiliar concepts via familiar ones. Metaphor is necessary not only for our imagination but also for our reason. Great poets can speak to us because they use the modes of thought we all possess. I pose a general question of the theory of metaphor; ‘Conceptual Blending Theory(Turner and Fauconnier, 1998)’ and more widely, within the theory of metaphor, I try to examine the metaphoric system of Robert Frost’s poetry. As a result of analyzing Robert Frost’s poetry, “Never Again Would Birds Song Be the Same”, contrary to the general beliefs, a literal study of literary texts is claimed to be highly interrelated with cognitive linguistics.