Poem Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening

Stopped by Woods on a Snowy Evening is a poem written by Robert Frost in 1922. This rather short poem tells the story of a man and his horse stopping in the snowy woods at night during their journey. We could say that it is a ballad. This poem seems really simple because of its shortness. It is quick to read and neat because there is the same number of syllables at each line. Every word is less than three syllables and all the words used are quite simple to understand. However, the poet chose to use iambic tetrameter, which is a complex rhythm scheme. The poem sounds like a story that could be told to children. Which shows how the poem is made, at first sight it seems quite common and insignificant, but with a closer look we see that there could be a complex meaning of it. How does the poet give this impression and why?

In the first stanza, the poet describes the woods and says that he is stopping there. We also learn that he is alone because the landlord of the woods is not there, so he doesn 't have to worry about being expelled out of the woods. The speaker is alone in the woods, the owner of the woods is in the village. There is opposition between the village and the woods; the village is the place where there is civilization and the woods are where the speaker is alone surrounded only by nature. He seems to enjoy being alone. The reader can imagine some peaceful woods with the snow falling gently which makes it look very soothing. Everything seems still except for the snow falling. However, the last line of the stanza “To watch his woods fill up with snow.” could be disturbing because it could indicate a snowstorm but the speaker makes it look like really peaceful. In this first stanza we can also notice the rhyming pattern which is AABA and will be copied on the following