Frost uses imagery, which is description involving the five senses of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell, to put us at the scene. His focus is on sight and sound.
As for sight, he locates us with the traveler "between the woods and frozen lake" on a dark night far from any farmhouse. We can see the white snow falling against a black night in this spot just as the narrator does. Frost also conveys sound: both the shake of the horse's harness bell, and
the sweepOf easy wind and downy flake.
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