tell me the summary of the poem class-VII board- ICSE
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"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" was written by American poet Robert Frost in 1922 and published in 1923, as part of his collection New Hampshire. The poem is told from the perspective of a traveler who stops to watch the snow fall in the forest, and in doing so reflects on both nature and society. Frost claimed to have written the poem in one sitting. Though this is likely apocryphal, it would have been particularly impressive due to the poem's formal skill: it is written in perfect iambic tetrameter and utilizes a tight-knit chain rhyme characteristic to a form called the Rubaiyat stanza.
SUMMARY OF THE POEM: STOPPING BY WOOD ON A SNOWY EVENING:-
❍ Stanza : 1
The poet Robert Frost is passing by a beautiful forest on a snowy evening. He loves the wood so much that he wants to be there and watch the beauty of the forest covered up with snow. He thinks that he knows the owner of the woods and he (the owner) lives in the village. So, he will not see him stopping near the wood and he can watch the woods with comfort.
❍ Stanza : 2
The narrator's horse on which he was passing by the forest must be in a confusion that why he stopped him without a farmhouse near, between the forest. Moreover, in a darkest evening of the year.
❍ Stanza : 3
As the narrator's horse is in a dilemma. He shakes his harness bell to indicate if there is some mistake that he has stopped near the forest. And there is no sounds near the forest other than sweeping of wind and downy snowflakes.
❍ Stanza : 4
At last the poet admires the beauty of the forests as it is dark, filled up with snow and deep. And says that he cannot watch the wood forever and has to move forward because he has several promises to keep in his life. Hence, the narrator leaves the place because of his duties in life.