In the poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost
             presents us with the picture of an individual pausing in a journey to observe
             the woods during an evening snowstorm. When the traveler's horse begins to
             grow impatient, they reluctantly move on.
             Beginning with lines stating that the narrator knows the owner of the
             woods and where he resides, Frost assumes a familiarity with the subject of
             the first stanza. It also seems that the narrator is expected, as it is
             said, "He will not see me stopping here." With the image of the woods
             filling with snow, we get the idea of a bleak, lonely time, perhaps death.
             "Death" could be the aforementioned "He" who owns the woods. There
             could be a great plague or war spreading, which would be why the personified
             death lives within the village, and not his woods.
             The second stanza introduces the horse and strengthens the image of the
             isolated woods with the statement that there is no farmhouse nearby. In
             the next line a frozen lake is mentioned, perhaps offering its smooth, glassy
             form as a contrast to the woods, thereby concreting the idea of its depth.
             "The darkest evening of the year" can be taken literally or it could
             represent a time of depression in the narrator's life.
             I believe the horse functions as a metaphor for the human spirit, as it
             seems that something is unsettling about the situation it finds itself in.
             The next stanza lends itself to this theory, as the horse's shake of denial
             is the only sound amidst the entrancing sweep of wind and snow. It refuses
             to accept the fate laid before it, demonstrating the determination and
             At the end of the poem, we find the narrator nearly hypnotized and
             longing for the dark beauty of the woods, or death. Only the responsibility
             of unfinished business, and the stubbornness of the human spirit, keep him
             The poem is written in quatrain stan...