Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening Show
1923 Robert Frost 1874 - 1963Robert FrostOxford English Dictionary (OED) Links Off Whose woods these are I think I know. My little horse must think it queer He gives his harness bells a shake The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
Image © Robert Frost by Alice Boughton The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection NYPL digital collections. Poem © by Robert Frost from the book 'The Poetry of Robert Frost' edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright © 1923, 1969 by Henry Holt and Company. Copyright © 1951 by Robert Frost. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company. All rights reserved. Explore the poemWhen you read this poem out loud think about the rhythm. Do you hear the steady clip clop of a horse’s hooves? Gently clap out the beat of the poem. Look closely at the rhyme pattern too. Notice how rhymes run through the poem and are not just seen in individual verses. You might like to highlight them on a printed version of this lovely poem. How will you say the last two lines of the poem which are repeated? It’s quite a mysterious poem isn’t it? Who is this horseman and where is he going? Who is the owner of these woods and what are the promises the narrator has to keep before he can sleep? You might like to write a short story based on this poem which answers some of those questions. About Robert FrostRobert Frost was a dominant figure in American cultural life in the first half of the twentieth century. On his death in 1963 President Kennedy talked about Frost leaving behind him ‘imperishable verse’ that gives ‘joy and understanding’. Frost first volumes of poetry were published in New England but he became a more widely known poet when he moved for a few years to England and met poets such as Ezra Pound and Robert Graves. Frost believed that a perfect poem was a fusion of emotion and thought. It is the lucid combination of feeling and intellect in his poems that helped him become so successful and ensured the popularity of poems such as ‘The Road Not Taken’. While skilfully handling traditional verse forms, he captured the rhythms and texture of ordinary language. He delighted in the rural landscape of New England but could also explore profound issues of life and death with gravity and wit. The Full Text of “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”1Whose woods these are I think I know. 2His house is in the village though; 3He will not see me stopping here 4To watch his woods fill up with snow. 5My little horse must think it queer 6To stop without a farmhouse near 7Between the woods and frozen lake 8The darkest evening of the year. 9He gives his harness bells a shake 10To ask if there is some mistake. 11The only other sound’s the sweep 12Of easy wind and downy flake. 13The woods are lovely, dark and deep, 14But I have promises to keep, 15And miles to go before I sleep, 16And miles to go before I sleep. The Full Text of “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”1Whose woods these are I think I know. 2His house is in the village though; 3He will not see me stopping here 4To watch his woods fill up with snow. 5My little horse must think it queer 6To stop without a farmhouse near 7Between the woods and frozen lake 8The darkest evening of the year. 9He gives his harness bells a shake 10To ask if there is some mistake. 11The only other sound’s the sweep 12Of easy wind and downy flake. 13The woods are lovely, dark and deep, 14But I have promises to keep, 15And miles to go before I sleep, 16And miles to go before I sleep.
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