Question

When the poet says 'but I have promise to keep' he means that

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Answer:

Hey there! you haven't specified the poem name.

I have this one poem named 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' (by Robert Frost) in my literature textbook which has the line 'But I have promises to keep', so I am writing the explanation of that.

The poet uses the line 'But I have promises to keep' to show how fascinated and engaged the speaker was in the snowy woods that he forgot about his task. He found the snowy woods, which belonged to a person familiar to him, who lived in the village, beautiful and stopped by to have a glance and enjoy the nature's beauty. He describes the woods as lovely, dark and deep but then he suddenly remembers that he has to reach his destination at the promised time. And so, he concludes his time spent in the woods with the sentence, 'But I have promises to keep'.

I hope this helps you as this was the closest poem I could relate with the verse.