Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" explores themes of loneliness and depression through its rhythmic language and cryptic details. The poem describes a traveler stopping to view snowy woods belonging to an unknown owner. Though the horse gives its harness bells a shake, very few sounds are noted, deepening the narrator's somber mood. The poem implies the traveler has important duties calling him elsewhere yet finds the peaceful woods enticing, capturing the inner conflict between responsibility and repose.