Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
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- TITLE
- PARAPHRASE
- CONNOTATION
- "Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening" is an easy title for the reader to picture in their heads. Gives the reader an idea that the reader is going on an adventure by snowy woods. He says he is, "stopping by", which might mean that he may of spotted something on his adventure.
- ATTITUDE
- The speaker talks about a familiar house in the village, and he doesn't plan on stopping to watch the woods fill up with snow. His horse finds it strange to stop near in the snowy woods in the evening, without farm house in sight. The horse shakes his bell in confusion, which is one of the only sounds you can hear besides the wind and the downy flakes. The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but the reader promised to travel a couple more miles before he goes to sleep, so he has to continue on his journey.
- SHIFT
- "My little horse must think it queer" - Horse have thoughts? Personification. He gives his harness bells a shake/ To ask if there is some mistake." - The horse is being personified as he asks his owner if there was a mistake. "But I have promises to keep,/ And miles to go before I sleep," - In this poem, sleep is a metaphor as death. "The only other sounds the sweep" "lovely, dark, and deep," - Two examples of alliteration. Plays a role in rhyme scheme of the poem. ** IMAGERY **
- TITLE
- "He" "his" Speaker: The speaker is unknown, but we could receive the impression that it is a guy. "darkest" "lovely, dark, deep" "queer" "sleep" Tone: These words give the reader a suspicious tone. Setting: The setting is taking place in the woods on a snowy evening.
- This poem is composed of four four-lined stanzas, which is a Rubaiyat Stanza. Rubaiyat has a rhyme scheme of AABA. Changes in sound are in the last stanza, where the speaker says, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep,/ But I have promises to keep,/ And miles to go before I sleep."
- I was pretty spot on with my hypothesis on the title. The speaker is characterized as someone who may love nature, and he stopped to notice the beauty of snowy woods. The last stanza gives the reader an idea that the poem may be a little deeper in meaning. The character could be preparing for death, and wants to make a few various stops before he dies. THEME: Isolation. The speaker proves that sometimes it is better to just be alone, and he seems to enjoy being by himself.
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