Stopping By The Woods On A Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Frost’s “Stopping by Woods” is a classic worshipped for it’s perfect structure of iambic tetrameter and lead rhymes, telling a tale of a horseback traveler trotting through an awe-inspiring wood at night on his way to a destination far away. However, this simple interpretation can be only derived from a first glance of the poem; after constant read through in trying to discover a deeper meaning, complexity is discovered in the story as each line unveils a piece of information about the traveler and his journey. The narrator is conflicted: he has just escaped the civilization of the village and wandered into the arms of a beautiful, yet dangerous forest. His horse even recognizes the queer atmosphere that the traveler has embraced and has stopped in to absorb his surroundings. Frost addresses the true conflict between embracing civilized social interaction in society or venturing to a more rebellious and adventurous path of life with his poem by having a conflicted traveler question his motives. The traveler addresses the comfort and safety of civilization in the first stanza by identifying the owner of the land he’s traveling through who lives in the village, safe from the wooded mystery, while the …show more content…
The horse is a suggestive metaphor for the narrator’s conscious; although eyes are not upon the narrator, there is still this barrier unsure of the woods and if approaching danger open-armed is such a great idea. The next two lines describe the woods themselves. They rim a frozen lake as snow piles upon them on the darkest evening of the year. The narrator is either figurative in his assessment of this evening being the darkest, or he’s being literal in the sense that it’s the darkest or most frightening evening of his year personally. This quatrain sets the stage by addressing the narrator’s loneliness and tone of the woods and
Frost’s “Stopping by Woods” is a classic worshipped for it’s perfect structure of iambic tetrameter and lead rhymes, telling a tale of a horseback traveler trotting through an awe-inspiring wood at night on his way to a destination far away. However, this simple interpretation can be only derived from a first glance of the poem; after constant read through in trying to discover a deeper meaning, complexity is discovered in the story as each line unveils a piece of information about the traveler and his journey. The narrator is conflicted: he has just escaped the civilization of the village and wandered into the arms of a beautiful, yet dangerous forest. His horse even recognizes the queer atmosphere that the traveler has embraced and has stopped in to absorb his surroundings. Frost addresses the true conflict between embracing civilized social interaction in society or venturing to a more rebellious and adventurous path of life with his poem by having a conflicted traveler question his motives. The traveler addresses the comfort and safety of civilization in the first stanza by identifying the owner of the land he’s traveling through who lives in the village, safe from the wooded mystery, while the …show more content…
The horse is a suggestive metaphor for the narrator’s conscious; although eyes are not upon the narrator, there is still this barrier unsure of the woods and if approaching danger open-armed is such a great idea. The next two lines describe the woods themselves. They rim a frozen lake as snow piles upon them on the darkest evening of the year. The narrator is either figurative in his assessment of this evening being the darkest, or he’s being literal in the sense that it’s the darkest or most frightening evening of his year personally. This quatrain sets the stage by addressing the narrator’s loneliness and tone of the woods and