ge in the poem, because it is in direct contrast to the third major image, the dark. While snow may represent a peaceful, calm evening, the night is described as the darkest of the year. "Between the woods and frozen lake/ The darkest evening of the year." (807). The pure black against the pure white, with the woods in the middle. Frost then makes mention of a frozen lake.
             It is clear that Frost is using the woods, the snow, the night, and the lake, to represent death, and the afterlife. Lakes are common images of life. Water is often used a source of life, as a reviver of things. However, this lake is frozen, there is no life in the lake now. Its ice, not water. The darkness of the night is death. The pure white of the snow is life. Frost must continue through the snow, into the night. He must continue through life, into death. Frost remarks: "I have promises to keep, but miles to go before I sleep." The man doesn&ap
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