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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
This poem is about taking time to appreciate the beauty and wonder of nature. The speaker is overwhelmed by the sight of the snow on the fields, and he stops to enjoy it. He must move on, however,...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The most significant symbol in the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” would be the woods. Through the adjectives that the speaker uses in the poem, the reader should recognize the...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
In the beautiful poem 'Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost, the poet describes a late ride through the snow to an appointment.In the first stanza he sets the tranquil scene and...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The plot of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost is quite simple. The speaker rides in his horse-drawn sleigh or carriage through the snow to the edge of the woods where he stops...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know. AHis house is in the village, though; AHe will not see me stopping here BTo watch his woods fill up with snow. A My...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The first thing to notice is the meter of the poem. Frost uses iambic tetrameter (four repetitions of an "unstressed-stressed" pattern), which seems to recreate the sound of a horse's...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The first sound mentioned in the poem occurs when the narrator's horse "gives his harness bells a shake." The narrator suggests the noise of the bells indicates the horse's impatience with standing...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The first image Frost constructs is visual (sight): the speaker stops "To watch [the owner's] woods fill up with snow" (line 4). We can imagine, based on this sensory description, what the scene...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Lots of ways to interpret this one. The most "literal" meaning would simply be that the speaker does not have the time to just hang out in the woods and enjoy nature. He has things that he has to...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The horse is shaking his harness bells to ask if stopping is a mistake. This poem describes a person that is driving a horse-drawn carriage on a snowy evening through some woods. The clue to why...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The narrator of the poem has stopped in the woods to watch them "fill up with snow" (line 4), the woods of someone who lives the village, a moment of quiet contemplation and beauty, I would say....
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
I am not sure exactly how intelligent horses are, but like many domesticated animals, they are creatures of routine. So, in Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," the horse finds it...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The final two lines of Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" convey the sheer distance the narrator still has to "go before I sleep." By repeating the line "And miles to go before I...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
There is a mistaken assumption built into this question—that poets are preachers or philosophers or moralizers in every poem they write. Here, Frost is an observer, a contemplater, and (even if...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The mood of the poem is quiet and contemplative. The narrator has stopping in the dark evening to admire the snowy woods, and he is far from the village where the owner lives. The village would...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Frost's "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" conjures a tone of quiet reflection and wintry reminiscence. When the rider first stops, he knows he is trespassing, but knows the owner's house is in...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The speaker of the poem is someone who is driving a horse and wagon along a snowy country road. We get the impression that he may be an older man. He stops the horse merely to watch how beautifully...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
When we refer to "imagery" we are talking about a literary term meaning the images and pictures that authors "paint" as it were with their words. We mean the descriptions that are created that help...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
As many scholars and readers have noted, Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" has a decidedly small amount of figurative language. Indeed, the poem is direct and concise, as though...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is written in a very deliberate meter and rhyming scheme. First, the meter is iambic tetrameter, meaning that each line is composed of four iambs, or "daDUM"...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
There are a couple of poetic devices used in this poem by Frost. In the first line, Frost inverts the normal sentence structure of the line: "Whose woods these are I think I know" instead of "I...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
In "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," by Robert Frost, the speaker of the poem (which of course is not necessarily Frost himself) stops his horse-drawn carriage (or sled, since it is snowing)...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
"The darkest evening of the year" would be the night before the Winter Solstice (December 21), which is the longest night of the calendar year. The man in the poem is riding his horse...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
What the speaker of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost does is very simple; however, why he does it is a bit more complicated. He stops to watch the snow fall near the woods....
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The speaker of Frost's poem knows to whom the woods belong. While at first he does not seem worried about trespassing because the owner will not see him, Whose woods these are I think I know.......
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
At the center of Robert Frost's poem is the description of a moment of contemplation -- how our daily activities, in all their complexity of decision and actions, the moments obfuscate the larger...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
One way to look at this poem is through the theme of the contemplation of life. In the poem, the speaker has paused in the middle of the woods to look at the landscape and admire its beauty. Note...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
All three of the poetic elements you mention (alliteration, exaggeration, and personification) can be found in Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." Alliteration is, of...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
On the surface, the setting of Robert Frost’s poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” seems simple enough, but the setting of a poem is often indicative of its theme. Some find the theme of...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The final two lines of Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" are repeated, which usually means the line is very important. Critics have offered several interpretations of these...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost has been quoted as saying: Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing. This explains a lot about his poetry. In...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The opening stanza identifies the setting as woods in the winter. The speaker is aware of the owner of the woods, knowing that he will not mind if he spends a moment to watch the snow fall. The...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
In the line, “My little horse must think it queer,” the speaker in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” seems to be trying to put himself into his little horse’s position. From what the speaker...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The mood of the poem's narrator is one of longing. He stops in the midst of a busy journey to watch the snow fall. He is in the woods, on horseback, and it is, he says, the "darkest evening of the...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
In the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," the speaker shares a precious moment with us. On the way to keep some promises, he stops his ride briefly to take in the beauty of the frozen...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Frost uses these descriptive terms to create a sense of atmosphere. The word "darkest" is applied to the evening: this term is a superlative, meaning that something that is "darkest" is darker than...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The entire first stanza of “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” refers to the owner of the woods where the narrator has stopped to watch the falling snow. “Whose woods these are I think I know. /...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The speaker of the poem, who is presumably Robert Frost himself, thinks he knows who owns the woods he has stopped to look at. The first stanza reads: Whose woods these are I think I know. His...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The opening lines of this poem have the narrative character speculating on who owns the woods. The main point of this speculation is to inform the reader that the woods are not the narrator’s, but...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The poet is probably on a mundane, routine errand and only has simple promises to keep. It appears that he lives on a farm and has driven into some little village in a horse-drawn sleigh to shop...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
You didn't specify which Robert Frost poem you were refering to in your question, so I have assumed you are talking about this famous Frost poem. Please respond if it is a different one, and in...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Well, since this is a JOURNEY, we should look for a more figurative (not really hidden) meaning. Consider that the speaker is pausing - some might say procrastinating - on his or her way to...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The first question to ask is: “Is the poet the narrator in the first person”? This is a legitimate question because, according to Aristotle, a poem only has one narrator, and our assumption is that...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The main role of the horse in the narrative of the poem is to emphasize, first, how unusual it is for the narrator to stop and watch a snowfall, second, to emphasize how long the narrator stays...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
There seems to be a pretty deep level of understanding between the speaker of the poem and his horse. It's likely that they spend so much time together, typically in the same familiar places, that...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost once answered a similar question with the statement: "If I wanted you to know I'd had told you in the poem." Feelings from poetry are intensely personal, and a poem that creates deep...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
I would say that the word "forest" suggests a large area covered with trees in a natural state; whereas the word "woods" suggests a smaller stand of trees which may be either virgin growth or...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The shaking of the harness bells is an example of auditory imagery. Along with the sweeping sound of “easy wind and downy flake,” the tinkle of the bells was the only sound that could be heard in...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
By the phrase "fill up with snow," the speaker wishes to convey that it is snowing, and heavily enough to "fill" the woods with snow. By this he means both that the sky is full of snowflakes and...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
"Previous obligations" can be described as responsibilities that a person has prior to something else coming up. Most people read the line, "But I have promises to keep," as the speaker's...
