Stopping by the Wood - Robert Frost

             STOPPING BY THE WOOD ON THE SNOWY EVENING.
             Robert Frost's well-known poem, "Stopping by The Wood on the Snowy Evening". Frost was born in San Francisco, where he spent his first eleven years. After the death of his father, a journalist, he moved with his mother and sister to Western Massachusetts near to his paternal grandparents. He wrote his first poem while a student at Lawrence High School, from which he graduated as co-valedictorian with the woman he was to marry, Elinor Miriam White. In 1894, he sold his first poem " The Butterfly, An Elesy", to a New York magazine, The Independent. He married in December 1895.
             1906, two of his most accomplished early poems, " The Tuft at Flowers" and "The Trial by Gustence" were published. 1912, he sailed with his family from Boston to Glasgow, then settled outside London in Beaconsfield. Frost placed his first book of poems, A Boy's Will (1913) with a small London publisher, David Nutt. He also made acquaintances in the literary world, such as the poet F.S. Funt, who introduced him to Ezra Pound, who in turn reviewed both A Boy's Will and North at Boston. His best early poems such as "Mowin", "Mending Wall" and "Home Burial".
             Frost won the first of four pulitzer prizes in 1924 for his fourth book, New Hampshire, and followed it with West-Running Book (1928) and A Further Range (1936) which also won a Pulitzer.
             The poem "Stopping By The Wood On a Snowy Evening" composed at four-line stanzas each with a rhyme pattern of "aaba". The rhyme scheme contributes to the play. Its linked pattern seems completed and resolved in the final stanza, underlining the effect of closure: aaba, bbcd, ccdc and dddd. The material scheme is iambic tetrameter, thre are four poetic feet in each line, each with two syllables, the second being stressed. Frosr employs alliteration as seen in "wa...

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