reflection on robert frost poem
From just reading Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost quickly it seems like the speaker is in the woods on a snowy night. The speaker is just taking in how beautiful and calm the scene is. The horse the speaker is riding becomes confused because they are stopping nowhere near a stable. The horse gets annoyed and shakes his harness bells. He or she wants to stay longer but knows that she should leave because it is a long way home.
When the narrator says, “promises to keep” I see it as the duties of a traditional American farmer. On a farm where time and hard work is valued above all things, watching the snowfall might be viewed as either a rare thing to do or a reward. A farmers work is never done it is a very demanding job and you have to be dedicated to keeping your crops alive. The narrator even realizes that him standing there is wasting time and its inappropriate. He shows his insecurities by realizing that even his horse that is a work animal that “ think it queer.” Along with the forest it describes, the poem is beautiful. The poem draws us into deep interpretations that you can’t find on the surface. There is an attraction to the woods because they are so dark, deep and you can get lost in it literally and emotionally. The poem makes is seem like there is a huge temptation to watch beauty while all your responsibilities are forgotten. A dilemena in the poem is that the woods are beautiful and tempting but can lead to dark times, danger and the unknown. The horse represents reality in the narrators mind. Reality would try to bring the narrator back to society. The horse does that by shaking his harness bells as I mention before.
Different people can view this poem differently. Frost used a regular rhyme scheme. The poem has four identical stanzas. Each line has four stressed syllables. In each stanza the first, second and fourth line rhyme but the third sets up the rhythm for the next stanza. There was meaning to every line and I
When the narrator says, “promises to keep” I see it as the duties of a traditional American farmer. On a farm where time and hard work is valued above all things, watching the snowfall might be viewed as either a rare thing to do or a reward. A farmers work is never done it is a very demanding job and you have to be dedicated to keeping your crops alive. The narrator even realizes that him standing there is wasting time and its inappropriate. He shows his insecurities by realizing that even his horse that is a work animal that “ think it queer.” Along with the forest it describes, the poem is beautiful. The poem draws us into deep interpretations that you can’t find on the surface. There is an attraction to the woods because they are so dark, deep and you can get lost in it literally and emotionally. The poem makes is seem like there is a huge temptation to watch beauty while all your responsibilities are forgotten. A dilemena in the poem is that the woods are beautiful and tempting but can lead to dark times, danger and the unknown. The horse represents reality in the narrators mind. Reality would try to bring the narrator back to society. The horse does that by shaking his harness bells as I mention before.
Different people can view this poem differently. Frost used a regular rhyme scheme. The poem has four identical stanzas. Each line has four stressed syllables. In each stanza the first, second and fourth line rhyme but the third sets up the rhythm for the next stanza. There was meaning to every line and I