"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy

             The poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" has a cheerful and playful style. In the first part of the poem the author says "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." This shows that he has a child like playfulness. "He will not see me here" means that he will not be seen in public doing this because he is reserved when others are around. The second stanza of the poem he just explains he stopped here to enjoy the surrounding beauty. Even though the lake is frozen, the forest is cold and it is getting dark, he believes it is worth his time. In the third stanza he says "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." He questions himself at first whether he should be here enjoying the scenery, but when he is here longer he gets an answer from nature. He did not make a mistake.
             The last part of the poetry he begins to realize that he has errands to run and duties to perform and he sort of sobers up. He goes on to say, "And miles to go before I sleep,/ And miles to go before I sleep." He finally gets up to go but is reluctant and wishes his task was over with because he is feeling tired as well.
             In the poem "After Apple Picking", Robert Frost uses a tone that describes the feeling of tiredness and soreness from picking apples. The first line "My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through/ Toward heaven still, means he is picking apples and had to climb with the ladder. The author also conveys that he is always laden with many chores and seems to never be able to finish them all. As soon as he finish one, some other chore comes up. We get this from "And there's a barrel that I didn't fill/ Beside it, and there may be two or three/ Apples I didn&a
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