Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
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Response: "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening"
The poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" written by Robert Frost, can be interpreted on several levels. The surface interpretation holds an evocative sense of beauty. The cold setting of woods and snow combined with soft sibilant sounds of wind can take a reader to a familiar season. In this poem, Mr. Frost is stopping by the woods welcoming harmless thoughts of death. In a deeper perspective, sleep and death metaphorically combine, reinforced by images of night and winter. Though death can be rather abysmal, fate is considered agile to Frost in this poem.
In this poem Frost takes a break from his daily routine "to watch his woods fill up with snow." Frost is staring into nature, considering the inevitable, for snow, as life, melts away. When he says "he will not see me stopping here" Frost is saying that death will not come if he is only pondering it...