Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening By

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening By Robert Frost Jose Rodriguez Esteban Hernandez Jane Bejerano

Biography of Robert Frost • A poet born in San Francisco, California on March 26, 1874 and died in Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 89 on January 29, 1963. • Attended Harvard University in 1897. Dropped out after two years due to health concerns. • A winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and was also a special guest at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration. • Had a total of six children, two of them had passed away. • Was known for writing about death & darkness.

Type of poem, rhyme scheme, and poetic meter. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is a lyric poem that consists of four quatrains. The rhyme scheme is aaba, bbcb, ccdc, dddd. A stanza that has the rhyme scheme, aaba, is known as a Rubaiyat quatrain. This poem has an iambic tetrameter, a line that has four iambs per line.

Diction and Tone Diction: Woods, sweep, easy wind, downy flake, lovely, promises Stopping, snow, queer, without, frozen lake, darkest evening, mistake, dark, sleep Tone: The tone is peaceful because like all of us, at some point we feel like we need some time to be alone, away from others to think about situations that are happening in our life.

Theme and Literary Devices The main theme of this poem is determination, because he talks about wanting to stay in the woods but he has responsibilities to fulfill before he sleeps. In other words, before he dies. This poem consists of four enjambments located in lines 3, 5, 9, and 11. Symbolism is used in the woods and the frozen lake. The woods is the church and the frozen lake is hell. The last two lines in the fourth stanza are metaphors that mean that he has a lot of things to do before he sleeps for the last time.

Interpretation of 1 st stanza Whose woods these are I think I know. He comes upon a church even though the church is in the village. The His house is in the village person he’s talking about though; is God and he’s saying He will not see me that God won’t see him stopping here stopping by because he needs time to think alone. To watch his woods fill up with snow.

Interpretation of 2 nd stanza My little horse must think it The horse must think it’s odd of the master to stop queer him without a farmhouse To stop without a in sight. farmhouse near The man is besides the Between the woods and a lake that is frozen lake frozen. We can infer that “The darkest evening of the year” is the winter year. solstice, the first day of winter, the time when the Sun is out the shortest.

Interpretation of 3 rd stanza He gives his harness bells The horse shakes his bells to ask his master why a shake they had stopped To ask if there is some because the horse mistake. doesn’t see a farmhouse. The only other sound’s the Besides the horse’s bells, sweep the master only hears the wind blowing softly Of easy wind and downy and the quietly soothing flake. sound of the snowflakes falling.

Interpretation of 4 th stanza The woods are lovely, dark God’s house is a very nice place to stay and think and deep, about his life but he can’t But I have promises to stay long because he keep, has responsibilities to fulfill. Being how it is, he And miles to go before I says he has a long way sleep, to go before he dies. And miles to go before I sleep.

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