Question

Explain the following four lines from the poem 'STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING ' by Robert Frost

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.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Here the woods represents something eternal which attracts a person or some cause that actually make a person leave materialistic things but at the same time the author is also aware that he has many responsibility(in form of friends and family) to look after. It will be a blunder from his part if he leaves everything and go after his passion( represented in the form of "woods" here)."Sleep" is indicating the act of renouncing the world. He knows that the world will not forgive him/anybody for doing such thing.