Analysis Of Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening

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In 1922, a middle-aged Robert Frost wrote “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” in which the speaker spends “the darkest evening of the year” admiring the snow-filled woods (Frost 4). Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” uses heavy metaphors, emphatic repetition, and a flowing rhyme scheme to convey the speaker’s acknowledgment of a long, eventful life. In this poem of one man’s struggle between solitude and obligation, he shows us how life is truly in the journey, not just in the stops along the way, and that stagnancy just isn’t an option. Robert Frost certainly isn’t the first to use metaphors for journey and death to bring life to his poems, but he does so in an eloquent, and almost unnoticeable way, causing the reader to feel This is used to show the importance of this line. The former could be read literally, and the latter figuratively. Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is written in iambic tetrameter, with a rhyme scheme of AABA – BBCB – CCDC – DDDD. While the first, second, and fourth lines of each stanza rhyme, the third does not. The third line does, however, rhyme with the first, second, and fourth lines of the following stanza. This gives the poem an overarching sense of consistency and helps it flow nicely from stanza to stanza, as opposed to some of his other, more staccato works, like “Departmental.” To conclude, Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” has given readers an incredible look into the journey and flow of life and death through the use of heavy metaphors, emphatic repetition, and a flowing rhyme scheme. Frost teaches us that stagnancy means not growing, that being stuck in one place, however enjoyable, isn’t conducive to self-improvement or productivity. This is the ultimate lesson in moving

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