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    This document provides an analysis of the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost. It summarizes each stanza, discusses literal and figurative meanings and symbols in the poem, and explores potential interpretations. Multiple elements are analyzed, including the horse bells, snow, woods, promises, and miles that must be traveled before sleep. The poem is open to interpretations related to appreciating nature, death, suicide, or a conflict between nature and civilization.

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    This document provides an analysis of the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost. It summarizes each stanza, discusses literal and figurative meanings and symbols in the poem, and explores potential interpretations. Multiple elements are analyzed, including the horse bells, snow, woods, promises, and miles that must be traveled before sleep. The poem is open to interpretations related to appreciating nature, death, suicide, or a conflict between nature and civilization.

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    Frost’s

    “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy


    Evening”: An Analysis
    Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

    Whose woods these are I think I know.


    His house is in the village though;
    He will not see me stopping here
    To watch his woods fill up with snow.
    My little horse must think it queer
    To stop without a farmhouse near
    Between the woods and frozen lake Link to poem
    The darkest evening of the year.
    He gives his harness bells a shake
    To ask if there is some mistake.
    The only other sound's the sweep
    Of easy wind and downy flake.
    The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.
    The plain sense of the poem
    Stanza 1-

    To Whom these woods belong?


    I think they belong to a man in the village,
    But he won’t see me stop here to watch
    The snow fall on the trees of his woods.
    Stanza 2-

    My horse that I ride must be thinking


    It is strange to stop at this time of the night.
    I stopped in-between the woods and the frozen lake,
    On the night with no moon.
    Stanza 3-

    The horse shakes the bells,


    As if he were to ask if I had made a mistake.
    There is no other sound in the woods
    Except the whistle of the wind.
    Stanza 4-

    The woods are beautiful and dark,


    But I have many commitments to keep,
    And I have to travel a long time,
    A long way before I have time to rest.
    The literal meaning and life
    Images Your life?

    Horse bells
    Which of these
    Snow images remind
    you of something
    Woods
    in your own life?
    Gone miles before you
    could sleep

    Relationship to Life
    THE FIGURATIVE AND
    SYMBOLIC MEANING

    Literal Figurative

    Woods Nature or wildness or


    irrationality or darkness.

    Sleep Death

    Village Civilization or responsibility

    Horse Domesticated part of society;


    -criticizes speaker for civilization.
    stopping -highlights society’s
    disapproval
    Rest too long while snow falls To lose one’s way or to die
    Multiple Interpretations of this Poem
    1) A description of a man appreciating nature.

    2) The poem is about death.

    3) This poem addresses suicide.

    4) Nature-lovers see it as a piece that trumpets


    nature and that scorns civilization (take that,
    civilization!).

    You probably have your own idea of what this


    poem means. How does it sound to you?
    Images Your life?

    Stopping to appreciate
    nature Which of these
    images remind
    Death
    you of something
    in your own life?
    Suicide

    Nature vs. Civilization

    Relationship to Life
    Should I Care?
    Have you ever wanted to escape from the world for a little while?
    Perhaps to go watch some woods fill up with snow? Leave
    Facebook to accumulate friend requests and wall posts for you,
    let the e-mails pile up, record a mischievous away message on
    your cell phone, stuff the homework, the papers, and the tests
    under the bed? Well, then this is a poem for you.

    Sometimes we crave a little vacation from responsibility.


    Sometimes we get hungry for alone time like the speaker does in
    "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." In a world in which
    we are constantly stimulated by the Internet, TV, phones, and ads,
    and in a world in which we are busy little bees, do we get to
    spend much time alone anymore? Do we have time to stop and
    smell the roses?
    The form of the poem:

    •The poem is a lyric; it narrates personal feelings


    and it is musical. The music in the poem is
    achieved by the meter
    (the rhythmical pattern of stressed and unstresse
    d syllables in verse)

    •The rhyme is aaba bbcb ccdc dddd.


    A simile: a comparison with the use of “as” or
    “like”
    Oh! My love is like a red red rose
    A metaphor: a comparison without the use of
    “as” or “like”
    Oh! My love is a red red rose
    A symbol: an implicit reference that allows
    for different interpretations
    Oh! My red rose

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