Stopping by the Woods in the Snowy Evening

1. Stopping by the
Woods on a Snowy
Evening
Robert Frost
BY Capt. Dr. Hardeepsinh R. Gohil

2. Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963)
⬗ An American Poet regarded for his realistic
depictions of rural life and his command of
American colloquial speech.
⬗ His famous poems ‘After Apple-Picking’, ‘The
Road Not Taken’, ‘Home Burial’ and
‘Mending Wall’
⬗ Won Pulitzer Prizes for poetry, Congressional
Gold Medal, Named as the poet Laureate of
Vermount.
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3. The Poem.
⬗ A Dramatic Monologue
⬗ A traveler pauses late one evening to admire
the woods by which he passes.
⬗ The woods compels the speaker’s interest,
and by the poem’s end one realizes that
there are promises to meet than ecstasy of
these woods.
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4. ⬗ Whose woods these are I think I know.
⬗ His house is in the village though;
⬗ He will not see me stopping here
⬗ To watch his woods fill up with snow.
⬗ My little horse must think it queer
⬗ To stop without a farmhouse near
⬗ Between the woods and frozen lake
⬗ The darkest evening of the year.
⬗ He gives his harness bells a shake
⬗ To ask if there is some mistake.
⬗ The only other sound’s the sweep
⬗ Of easy wind and downy flake.
⬗ 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.
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5. Short Questions
1. The central idea/ theme of the Poem Stopping by the
Woods in the Snowy Evening.
2. Resolution between an attraction towards the woods
and the pull of responsibility outside the woods in the
poem Stopping by the Woods in the Snowy Evening.
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