Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
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Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," seems to be a casual, ordinary story at first glance. In the poem, the persona ends up halting on an empty road to watch a snowy world before him even though the night sky in the air is already quite dark. But a closer look into the poem reveals a deeper, more mature meaning to this view of a snowy night, which seems a bit mystic. I believe that he (the persona) is heading to something dreadful, possibly death. And the poem suggests that dying is not a terrible nor dreadful end in and people should not be afraid of its course. Frost begins the poem by putting a sense of danger and suspense into the reader. The are of the speaker is very distant. After the first line it states that the nearest house is in the village, and that people will not see him stopping here. So you get the idea of a sort of gloomy night, which shows that he and his horse are alone. The fact that he is alone signals that the persona is secluded in the woods and won't be able to rely on any sort of aid if he is in trouble...