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Name: Nikunj Bhatti
Roll no.:17M.A. Semester: 3Enrollment No.: 14101005Year: 2014-16Paper no.: 10Email id.: [email protected] to: Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
Topic : Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Introduction
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The setting and Rhyme of the Poem
What is Ecocriticism ?
Discuss the diction of the poem.
What is the central purpose of the poem
Robert frost is known as the Nature poet, modern poet, and a Lyric poet. We find natural element in his poetry He is also known as Regional poet.
Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening is a inspiring poem by Robert lee frost .
The poem “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” is a meaningful poem. It conveys an important idea of keeping up one’s duties and responsibilities when alive.
Introduction
“Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.”
In the first stanza, Frost’s narrator states that he is passing some woods of a man who lives in the village, watching them to “fill up with snow”.
The poem is about the continuity of time and life. Poet is talking about the idea of spiritual
Woods
Village
Snow
Temptation in LifeNature
Beauty and mystery of worldDeath
Society and Civilization
Beauty of Death
“My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year.”
“My little horse” is use for “the soul” and horse is a kind of a tool to rich your destination. There is something strange for the horse because our speaker stop his horse in the woods and near the farm house so horse could not find the reason of speaker’s stop at middle.
The darkest evening of the year is also symbolized as near to die or about to die.
Frozen Lack
The period of birth to Death
He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there is some mistake.The only other sound's the sweepOf easy wind and downy flake.
Bell is a kind of guide here. And here the line suggests that a person who can predict the bad or worst situation before thethings will happen by getting some signs. So here bell is use as symbol for make him aware about the place. And instead of bells ringing sound we find the sound of sweeping, and this comes from the slight wind and softly falling snow.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.
Poet connects the word woods with life and the meaning of this line is that life is lovely as well as dark, it means full of risk and difficulty.
The line suggest that Death is the ultimate reality of the life but before that an individual has some duty to fulfill and the words like “and miles to go” suggest the same thing that there are so many works and responsibility
The word ‘Sleep’
Death of poet
The setting and Rhyme of the Poem
One snowy evening in winter in the deep dark woods.
Robert Frost writes the poem of Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening in first person point of view. in iambic pentameter. four quatrains.
aaba, bbcb, ccdc, dddd
Discuss the diction of the poem.
Robert Frost uses continuants in his word choice to produce a calm, serene tones which makes the poem flow smoothly from line to line.
He uses phrases like “of easy wind and downy flake” or “the woods are lovely, dark, and deep” to create a peaceful, soothing tone.
At the end of the poem he uses repetition in the phrase “And miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep” to suggest the idea of a long journey ahead of him.
•What is the central purpose of the poem
•The speaker wants to reflect his feeling and experience he encountered during his journey in the woods, that is, he has realized peace, beauty in nature and death.
•In nature you can find beauty and peace at heart. •You cannot choose what you really want to do if you have “promises to keep”, which are your duty and responsibility to fulfill.
