Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

1. Name: Nikunj Bhatti
Roll no.:17
M.A. Semester: 3
Enrollment No.: 14101005
Year: 2014-16
Paper no.: 10
Email id.: nikunjbhatti332@gmail.com
Submitted to: Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
Topic : Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
Evening

2. Introduction
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The setting and Rhyme of the Poem
What is Ecocriticism ?
Discuss the diction of the poem.
What is the central purpose of the poem

3. Robert frost is known as the Nature
poet, modern poet, and a Lyric poet.
We find natural element in his poetry
He is also known as Regional poet.
Stopping by the woods on a snowy
evening is a inspiring poem by Robert
lee frost .
The poem “Stopping By Woods on a
Snowy Evening” is a meaningful
poem. It conveys an important idea of
keeping up one’s duties and
responsibilities when alive.
Introduction

4. “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.”
In the first stanza, Frost’s narrator states that he
is passing some woods of a man who lives in the
village, watching them to “fill up with snow”.
The poem is about the continuity of time and
life. Poet is talking about the idea of spiritual

5. Woods
Village
Snow
Temptation in Life
Nature
Beauty and mystery of world
Death
Society and Civilization
Beauty of Death

6. “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.”
“My little horse” is use for “the soul” and horse is a kind of a
tool to rich your destination. There is something strange for the
horse because our speaker stop his horse in the woods and near
the farm house so horse could not find the reason of speaker’s
stop at middle.
The darkest evening of the year is also symbolized as near to die
or about to die.
Frozen
Lack
The period of birth
to Death

7. 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.
Bell is a kind of guide here. And here the line suggests that a
person who can predict the bad or worst situation before the
things will happen by getting some signs. So here bell is use as
symbol for make him aware about the place. And instead of
bells ringing sound we find the sound of sweeping, and this
comes from the slight wind and softly falling snow.

8. 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.
Poet connects the word woods with life and the meaning of this line
is that life is lovely as well as dark, it means full of risk and difficulty.
The line suggest that Death is the ultimate reality of the life but
before that an individual has some duty to fulfill and the words like
“and miles to go” suggest the same thing that there are so many works
and responsibility
The word
‘Sleep’
Death of poet

9. The setting and Rhyme of the Poem
One snowy evening in winter in the deep dark
woods.
Robert Frost writes the poem of Stopping By
Woods on a Snowy Evening in first person point of
view. in iambic pentameter. four quatrains.
aaba, bbcb, ccdc, dddd

10.  Discuss the diction of the poem.
Robert Frost uses continuants in his word choice to
produce a calm, serene tones which makes the poem flow
smoothly from line to line.
He uses phrases like “of easy wind and downy flake”
or “the woods are lovely, dark, and deep” to create a
peaceful, soothing tone.
At the end of the poem he uses repetition in the phrase
“And miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I
sleep” to suggest the idea of a long journey ahead of him.

11. •What is the central purpose of the poem
•The speaker wants to reflect his feeling and experience
he encountered during his journey in the woods, that is,
he has realized peace, beauty in nature and death.
•In nature you can find beauty and peace at heart.
•You cannot choose what you really want to do if you
have “promises to keep”, which are your duty and
responsibility to fulfill.