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    <title>Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Group at eNotes</title>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the poem 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' Robert Frost...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the poem 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' Robert Frost characteristically uses the term 'woods.' He could have used the word 'forest' but this term wouldn't have worked as well for his purposes. He often used the word 'woods' - you can look at the poem 'Desert Places' for another example. It's possible that he used the word 'woods' because it has an olde-english quaint connotation. Woods are characteristic features of the English...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:11:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the difference between woods and forest why not use a forest?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the difference between woods and forest why not use a forest?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:24:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The two previous posts show how the interpretation of literature is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The two previous posts show how the interpretation of literature is fundamentally arbitrary.  There's no one right answer -- the first says it's about death, the second about accomplishing duties.
The eNotes discussion of themes of the poem argues that there are three main ones:
Beauty
Return to nature and how difficult it is to do this given the demands of everyday society.
Duty and responsibility
As a non-literature person, I have always...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:11:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Robert Frosts's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (1923) which...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Robert Frosts's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (1923) which describes a  hauntingly pastoral scene of the barren "woods on a snowy evening" expresses the theme that one must concentrate on fulfilling  his promises and accomplishing his duties without being distracted by the pleasures of life.
The lyric describes a rider on a horse keen to reach home on a cold wintry night when he is captivated by the beautiful sight of snow falling...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:56:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It seems that the narrator is contemplating death on this "darkest night...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It seems that the narrator is contemplating death on this "darkest night of the year." Not that he is thinking about ending his own life, but he feels the lure of death that will be there later for him. Death looks to him "lovely, dark, and deep." Not scary, not grim, but rather welcoming, almost a relief.
But it is not yet his time, for he has connections with other people, "promises to keep" and a long way to go before the end finally...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:51:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is central idea of "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" by...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/stopping-by/q-and-a/what-central-idea-stopping-by-woods-snowy-evening-115799</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is central idea of "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:51:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This poem expresses the beauty of nature during winter season the poet...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This poem expresses the beauty of nature during winter season the poet on his journey to certain destination sees a woods filled with snow and he is enjoying the beauty of the woods and the owner whom he knows was not aware that he was appreciating the calmness and the beautiful scene of his woods. His horse must think that its very strange for him to stop by in a forest where there was no farm house and night approaching with freizing wind...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:55:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A lot of readers say that the narrator is probably a country doctor...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A lot of readers say that the narrator is probably a country doctor making house visits, but as it goes with poetry, this is just speculation. (The interpretation is open to each reader to read into it whatever he or she can relate to.) At any rate, this idea corresponds well with the narrator's wishes to linger in the woods being overcome by a sense of obligation to "get on with it."  Perhaps he/she has patients waiting  who depend on...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:23:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Where might the speaker have been going and what work did he have? Who...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Where might the speaker have been going and what work did he have? Who was he going to see? Did anything happen to him?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:35:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[On the contrary my dear engthcr5 and Tim, I think the answer is somewhat...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[On the contrary my dear engthcr5 and Tim, I think the answer is somewhat more straight forward and actually rather stark and poignant, hidden within the setting like a great but terrible secret. Yes the coating, edgeless quality of snow is at once soothing, and also very romantic. The narrator is reflecting on the world in flux, for the scene perfectly matches his heart, which is also in flux. He is under pressure, possibly simply the pressure...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:25:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There is a longing for death (“frozen lake,” “darkest evening of...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/stopping-by/group/discuss/poetry-techniques-13797#6</link>
        <description><![CDATA[There is a longing for death (“frozen lake,” “darkest evening of the year,” “The woods are lovely, dark and deep” seem to support this view), but that is not what the poem is exclusively about. If there is a momentary longing for death in the poem, there is also the reassertion of the will to face the tasks of living.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:08:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[While the familiar rhythm of iambic quatrameter and the simple rhyme...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/stopping-by/group/discuss/poetry-techniques-13797#5</link>
        <description><![CDATA[While the familiar rhythm of iambic quatrameter and the simple rhyme scheme of Frost's poem connotes relaxation, the repetition of the last line as the reminder that the poet has obligations, suggests his reluctance to go as well as the persistent interference of these obligations upon his enjoyment.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:30:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," the bells...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/stopping-by/q-and-a/what-conflict-do-bells-wind-present-speaker-89065</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," the bells represent time and society's obligatory creations while the wind is representative of Nature.  The horse gives "his harness bells a shake" to remind the poet that he has worldly obligations to fulfill as he stops to contemplate and enjoy the beauty of nature, whose only sound is the

sweep/Of easy wind and downy flake.

Thus, the conflict that presents itself is one between...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:19:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What conflict do the bells and the wind present to the speaker in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What conflict do the bells and the wind present to the speaker in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:09:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The woods are "lovely," but also "dark and deep." This darkness, which...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The woods are "lovely," but also "dark and deep." This darkness, which seems to exert a powerful attraction on the poet, takes on a vaguely ominous tone in the light of the final line, "And miles to go before I sleep." The two concepts "darkness" and "sleep" can easily signify not only sleep in the concrete sense but also the darkness of death, in whose "deep" the poet could hide from the responsibilities of life, the "promises" he must...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 04:12:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The deep silence is what also holds the poet spellbound - "The only...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The deep silence is what also holds the poet spellbound - "The only other sound's the sweep, / Of easy wind and downy flake."  There is a special silence that deep snow brings with it because it acts as a cushion.  Sounds are muffled when there is snow, especially if the snow is gently falling as the words "downy flake" indicate.  This means that the flakes are the slow-falling, fluffy, kind of snowflake.  It is as much the silence as the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 04:07:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Besides the beauty of the woods on a snowy evening, what else holds the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Besides the beauty of the woods on a snowy evening, what else holds the poet spellbound?
 
 
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        <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 00:52:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[cody1212,
The speaker of Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[cody1212,
The speaker of Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is in familiar territory; he is riding his sleigh during an evening snowfall and has stopped to watch the woods “fill up with snow.”
There is nothing particularly noteworthy in the speaker’s decision to stop, for falling snow is lovely to watch, but, the stopping may signify a reluctance to move forward, a fear of the future. The speaker apparently feels embarrassed...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 07:44:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are the uses of figurative language in this poem?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/stopping-by/q-and-a/what-useof-figurative-language-this-poem-85177</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What are the uses of figurative language in this poem?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 05:37:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The tone of "Mother to Son" is didactic.  A mother, after looking back...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/stopping-by/q-and-a/what-tone-poem-mother-son-79099</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The tone of "Mother to Son" is didactic.  A mother, after looking back at her life, wants her son to know that life is not easy or glamorous--it's not a "crystal stair." Instead, the mother/speaker chooses to describe her life as a winding, unrelenting staircase.  However, the poem does not imply a negative tone toward life as a whole.  The mother states that even though her life has not been facile, she has been "reachin' landin's,"...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:31:03 PST</pubDate>
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