Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
The poem is about a guy passing through a forest on a very dark and cold night. He wants to stop and sleep but he has “miles to go before [he] sleep[s].” The narrator is first person, the man speaking to himself. Setting is late night during winter on the “darkest evening of the year.”. The words are concrete with no clichés. Rhyme, rhythm, and repetition adds emphasis and interest and flow in the poem. The rhyme scheme is aaba bbcb ccdc dddd. This is a closed poem constructed of four stanzas with four lines each.
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
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.
Picture #1: the dark woods with no house because of the line “his house is in the village though”
Picture #3: a man on a horse in the dark woods
Picture #5: “he” [the horse] shakes bells so I chose a picture with a horse and bells on it. Also why there is bell sound effect in the presentation.
Picture #7: I googled “lovely dark and deep forest” and that came up