Short summary of stopping by woods on a snowy evening
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Summary of Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
The loet is probably a farmer returning home from far away. The poet is riding his horse and it is winter time and He stops the horse and looks around, enjoying. There is a lake on one side and a small forest on the other side,it suddenly starts snowing.The lake is almost frozen. It is now very dark,
the traveler stops the horse in an unusual place, where there is no house nearby,
While going to his house, the poet is struck by a farm land, and begins to look at the snow flakes being falling on the land.
he has stopped for some time to immerse himself in its beauty.He was reluctant to move from there, but the horse signaled him that they have to move back to their home.He is travelling on his horse. While going back, he passes by the woods; he stops there and has a look.A strange feeling is surrounded by him that he is standing on the land which is not owned by him by someone else. It may not be good to stand there for a long time, since the owner of the land may not like any strangers standing and staring at his farms.But then suddenly, this fear evaporates. as he feels that he know about the owner of these woods.He wishes to stay longer at the place but cannot. He and his horse have to go miles before they can sleep. So, he will go on, but getting such a magnificent view of nature is a matchless experience in itself.
The poem still signifies the poet’s desire to break away from busy life and seek an escape somewhere closer to nature.
Explanation:
On the surface, this poem is simplicity itself. The speaker is stopping by some woods on a snowy evening. He or she takes in the lovely scene in near-silence, is tempted to stay longer, but acknowledges the pull of obligations and the considerable distance yet to be traveled before he or she can rest for the night.
Form
The poem consists of four (almost) identically constructed stanzas. Each line is iambic, with four stressed syllables:
Within the four lines of each stanza, the first, second, and fourth lines rhyme. The third line does not, but it sets up the rhymes for the next stanza. For example, in the third stanza, queer,near, and year all rhyme, but lake rhymes with shake,mistake, and flake in the following stanza.
The notable exception to this pattern comes in the final stanza, where the third line rhymes with the previous two and is repeated as the fourth line.
Do not be fooled by the simple words and the easiness of the rhymes; this is a very difficult form to achieve in English without debilitating a poem’s content with forced rhymes.
Commentary
This is a poem to be marveled at and taken for granted. Like a big stone, like a body of water, like a strong economy, however it was forged it seems that, once made, it has always been there. Frost claimed that he wrote it in a single nighttime sitting; it just came to him. Perhaps one hot, sustained burst is the only way to cast such a complete object, in which form and content, shape and meaning, are alloyed inextricably. One is tempted to read it, nod quietly in recognition of its splendor and multivalent meaning, and just move on. But one must write essays. Or study guides.