This document discusses symbolic imagery in Robert Frost's poetry. It provides context on symbolism and defines it as an object that represents or stands for something different. It then analyzes some of Frost's poems, including "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," discussing symbols like the woods representing irrationality or darkness, and fire and ice representing opposing concepts. It also briefly summarizes other Frost poems like "The Gift Outright" and "Home Burial."

1. Symbolic imagery in Frost’s poem
Name – Shital D Italiya
Roll no – 29
Paper no – 10(American literature)
Submitted to - Smt. S.B.Gardy department of English
M.K.Bhavnagar university
Bhavnagar

2. What is Symbolism?
“ the word symbolism is derived
from the Greek word “symbollein”
which means to throw together,
Mark, Emblem token or sign. The
ward symbol s an object which can
be animated or inanimate .
Symbol represent or stand for
something different.

3. According to M.H Abraham
“ In the usage of literary
Historian, symbolist movement
designates specifically a group of
French writers beginning with
Charles Baudelaire”

4. Stopping by woods
“whose woods these are I think I know”
 Whose – shows the possessiveness of the human life.
“ and miles to go before I sleep”
 For the last “miles to go” now seems like life; the last
“sleep” now seems like death.

5. Woods, positive or negative ?
 Woods – wilderness, madness, the pre- rational, the looming
irrational.(negative)
 Woods –seeds of the irrational, night , with all the varied
connotation of darkness.
 Irrational – Attraction, restful ,seductive, lovely, dark and deep

6. design
 Cobweb of spider – fat and white
 Comparisons between white and evil
thing.

7. Fire and ice
 Juxtaposition
 Binary opposition
 Fire – Patience,
creativity, new life
 Ice – destroy, death

8. The gift outright
 Natural relationship between land and human
being
 About the war
 Spiritual and moral death of America
 American colonization.

9. Home burial
 Window
 Door