"Stopping by woods on a snowy evening" by Robert Frost

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vSTOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING Stopping by woods on a snowy evening is perhaps the most well known poem by ROBERT FROST ; in fact, this is the single poem through which FROST is known to many . This poem is suggestive of profound thoughts and utterances about human life and death, the great leveler. The poem opens with the speaker standing in the woods. The scene and means employed to portray it, call our attention. Across the road from the woods that the speaker is passing through, there is a frozen lake. Houses are beyond the vision of the speaker and the quietness marks the scene. It is snowing heavily and the speaker can hear the soft and ...

... phrases the thought, keep lingering. But the poet's final decision is to put of the poetic, philosophizing mood and to go on. The poet is the man of the world: he has to go on his defined path and has his obligations to tend before he can yield to spontaneous, natural, passionate calls of nature. He has miles to go before he can sleep. He repeats this thought and the poem ends with the end of the performance. The first time Frost says 'and miles to go before I sleep, the primary meaning is IV a long way to go before my death. However, `miles to go' and sleep are suddenly transformed into symbols. Miles to

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