Life Goes by Fast The poems “Out, Out” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” were written by the distinguished poet, Robert Frost. The poem ”Out, Out” narrates the story of a boy who was using a buzz saw to cut wood in his yard. While he is doing this he accidentally cuts his hand off. This poem shows us how life can change in an instant. Tomorrow is never promised and a person can quickly forget about enjoying life and its greatest treasures, and without even expecting it everything can be taken away. In addition to, the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” narrates the story of a man; perhaps the poet, who was traveling on a late snowy evening by horse in the woods, this man loved to appreciate nature and the snowfall in time …show more content…
Peace and quiet does a lot of justice. These poems are very different but they both relate to life and death situations during rough times. The man and the boy were facing a real challenging time in their life. For instance, the boy he fought hard to keep living, whereas the man had a wonderful experience to keep fighting for life and achieve his dreams. The boys life was cut short due to the lifestyle he had, working a man’s job. He did not have the opportunity to fulfill his dreams and goals in life. Robert Frost uses these poems to teach the reader, the imagery of death through depression and tiredness between society and nature. Life and death is the basic key in the poem “stopping by woods on a snowy evening.” Frost illustrates to the reader how this man took a moment to enjoy nature and life with no obligations to attain …show more content…
Many adverse events can strike us at any given point in life without any warnings. A person should not take anything in life for granted since nothing is promised. For instance, in the story of the man in “stopping by woods on a snowy evening” he may have been feeling tired or perhaps depressed, but he sets his mind to move on with his life before it’s too late. His horse, which might represent a small amount of life left in the man, gives the harness bells a shake to demonstrate how he can’t stay in the appealing woods, but he has to move on with his life. Furthermore, in the story “out, out” the boy’s sudden death reflects the tragedy of the death of a child “doing a man’s work, though a child at heart” (Frost 24). His life is compared to a “brief candle”. Once the candle is out it is gone forever, once we die there is nothing left but the same darkness and silence like that brief candle. It doesn’t matter how you look at life. Everyone’s life starts the same and ends the same. The only importance is what you do in the time in between. Death is a part of life. Without it, living would lose its
Epictetus once wrote, "First say what you would be; and then do what you have to do." This aphorism of self-discovery and obligation clearly describes Robert Frost's poem, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." In the course of the poem, Frost's speaker is confronted with two choices: he can either forget his problems or he can follow through with his responsibilities and make the most of life. It is through Frost's remarkable presentation of the speaker's thoughts that the reader may see how difficult this decision can be. Through powerful elements, such as alliteration, rhythm, and imagery, Frost stresses the importance of perseverence and facing one's fears and obligations.
An unknown author once wrote “Never take life too seriously; after all, no one gets out of it alive”. When reading this quote, there can almost be an immediate connection between two very good works of writing: Macbeth’s “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” speech from Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth, and the poem “Out, Out --” by Robert Frost. Both allude to the idea that a single life, in its totality, denotes nothing, and eventually, everyone’s candle of life is blown out. However, each poet approaches this idea from opposite perspectives. Frost writes of a young, innocent boy whose life ends suddenly and unexpectedly. His poem is dry and lacks emotion from anyone except the young boy. Whereas the demise of Shakespeare’s character, Macbeth, an evil man, has been anticipated throughout the entire play. Through these writings, we are able gather a little more insight as to how these poets perhaps felt about dying and life itself.
Frost’s sentence structure is long and complicated. Many meanings of his poems are not revealed to the reader through first glance, but only after close introspection of the poem. The true meanings contained in Frost’s poems, are usually lessons on life. Frost uses symbolism of nature and incorporates that symbolism into everyday life situations. The speaker in the poems vary, in the poem “The Pasture”, Frost seems to be directly involved in the poem, where as in the poem “While in the Rose Pogonias”, he is a detached observer, viewing and talking about the world’s beauty. Subsequently, the author transfers that beauty over to the beauty of experiences that are achieved through everyday life.
"Out, Out--" by Robert Frost is a poem about a young boy who dies as a result of cutting his hand using a saw. In order to give the reader a clear picture of this bizarre scenario, Frost utilizes imagery, personification, blank verse, and variation in sentence length to display various feelings and perceptions throughout the poem. Frost also makes a reference to Macbeth's speech in the play by Shakespear called Macbeth which is somewhat parallel to the occurrences in "Out, Out-."
Robert Frost’s poem “Out, out” is set in Vermont during the late afternoon and is about a young boy who is cutting wood for the family stove and gets his hand cut off ultimately resulting in death. Frost uses this poem as a way to show that life has little sympathy for the dead. He does this by using many literary techniques such as imagery, personification, allusion, and blank verse. All of these techniques are important when understanding this poem because it helps to convey certain feeling and emotions from Frost’s perspective. The theme, symbols, and literary techniques Frost uses are essential in coming to terms with how to portray this poem.
Everyone feels burdened by life at some point. Everyone wishes they could just close their eyes and make all the problems and struggles of life disappear. Some see death as a release from the chains and ropes with which the trials and tribulations of life bind the human race. Death is a powerful theme in literature, symbolized in a plethora of ways. In "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eve" Robert Frost uses subtle imagery, symbolism, rhythm and rhyme to invoke the yearning for death that the weary traveler of life feels.
Robert Frost uses metaphor and symbolism extensively in ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’, developing deeper and more complex meanings from a superficially simple poem. Frost’s own analysis contributes greatly to our appreciation of the importance of metaphor, claiming that “metaphor [is] the whole of thinking,” inviting the reader to interpret the beautiful scene in a more profound way. However, the multitude of possible interpretations sees it being read as either carefully crafted lyric, a “suicide poem, [or] as recording a single autobiographical incident” . Judith Oster argues, therefore, that the social conditions individual to each reader tangibly alter our understanding of metaphor. Despite the simplicity of language, Frost uses conventional metaphors to explore complex ideas about life, death and nature. The uncertainty, even in the concluding stanza, that encompasses the poem only adds to the depth of possible readings.
In the opening stanza, Frost describes coming to a point during a walk along a rural road that diverges into two separate, yet similar paths. The narrator finds that he ...
Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is about a person the speaker, who stops near the woods when it is snowing out to take a break and look around. He notices how beautiful it is to look at the snow falling in such a peaceful way out of the dark sky.
Hochman, Jhan. "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." Poetry for Students. Vol.1. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998.
In "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" Robert Frost demonstrates a dedicated person's commitment to life. Despite the hardships and troubles that life carries, the speaker in this poem comes to the realization that he must continue living his life. He makes an important decision that is brought on in a question, which is triggered by the beauty of his surroundings. He decides that he wants to complete the life that he started because of the many obligations he is responsible for.
Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” provide us contrasting and sometimes similar glimpses of life. “The Road Not Taken” is about taking control and living life. “Stopping by Woods on Snowy Evening” entails the desire for rest, perhaps due to the speaker’s feelings of weariness from facing life’s struggles. The poet also explains the tough choices people stand before when traveling the road of life. Sometimes people regret the possibilities of the road not chosen, sometimes people feel proud about the road they have chosen.
Robert Frost’s love of nature is expressed in the setting of his poem "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening." His elaborate description of the woody setting brings vivid images to the reader’s mind. Frost explains the setting so descriptively that the reader feels he is in the woods alsoThe setting is a very important tool Frost uses in writing this poem. The setting is obviously in the woods, but these are not just any old woods. Something caught the speaker’s eyes in these woods making them a special place for the speaker. It seems as if the speaker has associated these woods with an aspect of his "personal paradise". The peacefulness, tranquillity, darkness, and silence are all important parts of this "paradise".
In the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost is about a man who stops on his way home to admire the snow filled woods. The man and the woods seem to have a connection of some kind. The snow falling in the woods is quiet and peaceful seems like the man is pretty peaceful and quiet. It also says that it is a darkest evening is it the darkest because it is winter and it gets darker earlier or is it because the man has had a really long bad day. Did he come to the woods to watch the snow because it is peaceful and he needed to clear his mind or maybe had the thoughts of suicide on his mind? Could the horse sense that something worse wrong since the poem tells us that he stopped and shake his harness in what seems like some confusion. The poem also states, “The woods are lovely, dark and deep” which again confuses you on his purpose in the woods. Does lovely really mean he is just passing through and admiring the woods. Does dark mean that it is getting dark or does it mean the thought of death and suicide? Does deep mean just deep in the woods or does it also mean death. I think the man in the people came to the woods is hopes that no one would be able to see him and it would be a quiet, peaceful place to commit suicide. However, one he arrive there and is was quiet and peaceful overlooking the village he remembered that he had promises that he had made that he needed to keep and talked himself out of killing himself. He convinced himself that he had a
Frost uses nature as a reflection of human experiences; just like humanity it can have seasons and life cycles. He uses different scenes to depict a certain mood for readers to step into the psychological happening of a man. The idea of how seasons change, Frost compares it through the life cycles that humans encounter. Contrary to popular opinion, I believe that nature is not Frost’s central theme in his poetry; it is about the relationship that man has with nature in which can be seen from “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, “The Road Not Taken”, and “An Old Man’s Winter Night.”