The poem describes a traveler stopping in the woods on a snowy evening to watch the snow fill up the woods. The traveler's horse thinks it's strange to stop without a nearby farmhouse between the dark woods and frozen lake on the darkest evening of the year. The horse shakes its harness bells, wondering if there's been a mistake in stopping. The only other sounds are the wind and falling snowflakes. The woods are lovely but dark and deep, and the traveler has promises to keep and farther to travel before resting for the night.

1. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

2. 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.

4. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. Who put up this sign….and why?