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why does the narrator decide to move on despite his desire to admire the beauty of the woods?
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Why does the speaker stop in the woods in Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"?

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WILLIAM DELANEY eNotes educator | CERTIFIED EDUCATOR

In the first stanza the speaker tells why he is stopping by the woods. It is "To watch his woods fill up with snow." It is a cold night but apparently not too cold for the speaker to stop for a few minutes to look at a beautiful sight. I think all of us have done this at one time or another, though most of us were not riding in a horse-drawn sleigh. We are on a motor trip and see a beautiful view. There may even be a marked turn-off where motorists can park and enjoy the view. There are plenty of such places, for example, around the Grand Canyon and probably in every national park. Frost was a nature lover. He not only enjoyed looking at beautiful natural scenery, but he seems to have drawn inspiration for some of his poems directly from nature, as was also done by famous English poets like William Wordsworth and John Keats.

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" reads like a tribute to the beauty of nature. If we get anything out of the poem at all, we get the feeling of being there on a cold, dark, silent night watching the "downy" flakes slowly descending like white feathers and settling on the trees. It would seem that these woods would have to be evergreens because the speaker says it is "the darkest evening of the year," which would make it December 21st or 22nd. At that time of year all the deciduous trees in the region would be bare or nearly bare of dead leaves, and this would not be a pretty sight. But evergreens with their widespread branches covered with snow are always so aesthetically appealing that they are often depicted on Christmas cards.

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One of Robert Frost's most beloved poems, "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" , is still studied in many schools and colleges all through the globe over a hundred after it had been initially published. So throughout decades, the poetry had elicited a wide range of feelings among its listeners. Its beauty of such poem is partly based just on varying interpretations that may be formed about it but the reality that neither version can be considered completely true.

• The poetry is all around a traveller who really was this piece's speaker.
• The traveller is ostensibly male, yet gender is unimportant herein and wasn't really acknowledged.
• He rides his pony into the countryside, passing through a stunningly gorgeous wintertime snow-covered woodland.
• He takes his time moving forward while he appreciates overall loveliness of the woodland, and sometimes even the horse appears concerned as it shakes its collar rings.
• The wilderness is barren, with only the speaker as well as the horse there.
• Finally, our storyteller is recalled about his countless commitments, duties, and continues on his path.
• The speaker cannot remain with in forest since he should fulfill obligations.
• These forests are beautiful, dense, and profound.

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