Question

1. Who is the speaker in the poem?
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Answer 1

The speaker is the voice or "persona" of a poem. One should not assume that the poet is the speaker, because the poet may be writing from a perspective entirely different from his own, even with the voice of another gender, race or species, or even of a material object.

Answer 2

The speaker in the poem is the poet himself.

The poet himself is talking about the woods in which he has stopped. He talks about whose woods these are and say that he might know the owner of the woods. He says that the owner of the woods lives nearby on a farm in the village.

• The question given above is from the poem "Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening" by Robert Frost.

• The poem was written by Robert Frost in 1922 and was published in 1923 in his New Hampshire Volume.