Analysis of Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost (1874 -1963) Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening 1923 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 5 To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. ... The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, 15 And miles to go before I sleep. An unfolding of Robert Frost’s “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” “The best way out is always through,” Robert Frost once told an audience, perhaps after reading his poem “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” (“Quotes…” 5). ... However, clarification of his last three lines in “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” was not at all clear. ... The intensity of this tearful moment translates into the effective content that permeates, but never overwhelms “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.