The poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost describes a speaker who stops his horse-drawn carriage in the woods on a snowy evening. While the woods are beautiful, the speaker knows he must continue on his journey as he has promises to keep and miles left to travel before resting. The quiet, peaceful tone of the poem is achieved through Frost's word choices and imagery of the snowy winter scene.

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3. Robert Frost (1874-1963) was born in San Francisco, California. His father William Frost, a journalist and an ardent Democrat, died when Frost was about eleven years old. His Scottish mother, the former Isabelle Moody, resumed her career as a schoolteacher to support her family. The family lived in Lawrence, Massachusetts, with Frost's paternal grandfather, William Prescott Frost, who gave his grandson a good schooling. In 1892 Frost graduated from a high school and attended Dartmouth College for a few months. Over the next ten years he held a number of jobs. Frost worked among others in a textile mill and taught Latin at his mother's school in Methuen, Massachusetts. In 1894 the New York Independent published Frost's poem 'My Butterfly' and he had five poems privately printed. Frost worked as a teacher and continued to write and publish his poems in magazines. In 1895 he married a former schoolmate, Elinor White; they had six children. Your ultimate place for quality Literature Appreciation 417-212

4. Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening 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 ( by Robert Frost ) Your ultimate place for quality Literature Appreciation 417-212

11. 13. point out the figure of speech such as metaphor, simile, personification, and explain their appropriateness. Personification : In “My little horse must think it queer” , “To ask if there is some mistake”, the horse is personified to act as a human-being who can exchange his thought with another person, and in “He gives his harness bell a shake”, also suggests the personification of a horse as a human-being. Symbol : The description of the woods in the last stanza as ‘lovely, dark and deep’ symbolizing the happy life after death. Your ultimate place for quality Literature Appreciation 417-212

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