Question

Stopping by woods on a snowy evening poetry appreciation

Answer 1

One of my favourite poems....This very poem has been written by Robert Frost..

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening has four stanzas.... each line of this poem has four beats, stressed syllables, maintaining a regular rhythm within the poem, perhaps suggesting the plod of a slow moving horse.

The rhyme scheme is aaba bbcb ccdc dddd and all are full.

Answer 2

The speaker is probably a farmer returning home from far away. He is riding his horse. It is getting rather late. He has come to a place where there is very beautiful scenery. He stops the horse and looks around, enjoying. There is a lake on one side and a small forest on the other side he snow is falling like soft cotton (downy).The lake is almost frozen. It is now very dark. It is quiet, and there is only the sound of the wind on the flakes of snow. Because the traveler stops the horse in an unusual place, where there is no house nearby, the horse shakes its head, in the manner of asking if there is some mistake. Then the traveler becomes conscious that he has a long way to go before he gets home to sleep. “The wood are lovely, dark and deep”, but he has promises to keep. We do not know whether the promises were made with someone, or they are his own commitments, but anyway he cannot stop there: he must go.