Stopping+by+Woods+on+a+Snowy+Evening



=Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening = Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">And miles to go before I sleep.


 * <  ||< <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Examples from Text ||< <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Explanation/Impact ||
 * < <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">T <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">heme ||< <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">"The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, /But I have promises to keep, /And miles to go before I sleep," ||< <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Sometimes it is necessary to take a break and reflect

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-These breaks are important, but don't forget your responsibilities

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Sometimes you need to be on your own even though society pushes you to be social

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Nature's beauty is important and we should appreciate it

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">No matter how crazy things get, you should always stop and take time to appreciate the small things because sometimes your "promises" can be overwhelming and end up burdening you and hurting you rather than enhancing your character. ||
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">I <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">magery || <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">"Woods fill up with snow"

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">"Little horse"

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">"Woods and frozen lake"

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">"Darkest evening of the year"

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">"Harness bells a shake"

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">"The only other sound's the sweep / of easy wind and downy flake"

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">"Lovely, dark, and deep"

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">"miles to go" || <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Clear image <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Straightforward and descriptive <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Creates a vivid picture of quiet woods cover in a thick blanket of steadily falling snow

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Creates a lightness <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Being "little" mean sometimes the reader can assume the horse is cute, which is appealing

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-The woods again (obsessed?) <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-"frozen" makes us feels the chill ourselves as though we were outside in the winter as well

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> -Lets us know that it is the Winter Solstice <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-This would be near present day Christmas

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Snaps the reader out of the trance in which we had joined the narrator <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-We were appreciating the beauty but now it's time to move on

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-We are transported back to the silence and beauty <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Shows how isolated and alone the narrator is <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Also shows that he is alone in respect to humans, but nature is ever present

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Hypnotizing -not frightening, but calming

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Creates a sense that there is a very long journey <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Makes the reader picture the snow covered path extending through the woods, disappearing into the darkness ||
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">M <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">eter || <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Rhyme Scheme: AABA, BBCB, CCDC, DDDD

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Last Couplet (repetition)

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Rhythm

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Mostly monosyllabic words || <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Rubaiyat Stanza <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Makes it sound nice

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Let's the reader know the poem has ended

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Iambic tetrameter <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">× / × / × / × / <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Makes the poem neat/tidy <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Moves it along quickly <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Makes it sound nice

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Faster pace <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Makes it sound very simpler than it is ||
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">E <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">motion || <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">"He will not see me stopping here"

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">"Gives his harness bells a shake"

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">"Easy wind and downy flakes"

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">"Promises to keep"

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">"Miles to go before I sleep" || **<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Relaxed ** <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Like an exhale, the reader can relax with the narrator

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-We realize that we cannot stand in these woods forever
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Impatient **

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-It's like we are standing the quiet woods <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-We can feel the sereneness of the quietly falling snow
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Peace **

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-What are these promises? <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-They must be important <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Are they promises to himself or others?
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Curiosity **

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-We can all relate to this line <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-At some point we have felt as though we too had miles to go before we get to sleep <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-We relate to his need to move on and continue
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Weary **

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Contemplating if we've ever taken a moment to reflect like the narrator <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Think about nature's beauty ||
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Reflective **

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=<span style="color: #337ae5; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 350%;">A Short Biography = <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Born: March 26th, 1874 (San Francisco) <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Died: January 29th, 1963 (Boston)
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Father died when he was 11
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Had a sister (Jeanie) (2 year younger)
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Enrolled in Dartmouth College
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Later transferred to Harvard (never earned a formal college degree)
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Worked as:
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Teacher
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Cobbler
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Editor of the Lawrence Sentinel
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Published first poem "My Butterfly" on November 8th,1894
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Married Elinor Miriam White in 1895
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Had gone to high school with her
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Moved to England in 1912
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Become friends with Ezra Pound[[image:snowypg.jpg align="right"]]
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Returned to US in 1915
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Had published two full-length collection
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Started to establish a reputation
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">By the 1920's he was one of the most famous poets in America
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Taught and lived in Massachusetts and Vermont


 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Awards **
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Honorary degree, Yale University (1924)
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Russell Loines Poetry Prize (1931)
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Pulitzer Prize, Collected Poems (1931)
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Honorary degree, Dartmouth College (1933)
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Pulitzer Prize, A Further Range (1937)
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Honorary degree, Harvard University (1937)
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Gold Medal for Poetry, National Institute of Arts and Letters (1939)
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Gold Medal, Poetry Society of America (1941)
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Honorary degree, Princeton University (1941)
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Pulitzer Prize, A Witness Tree (1943)
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">First Annual Poetry Award, Boston Arts Festival (1954)
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Medal for Distinguished Service, Theodore Roosevelt Society (1954)
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Honorary degree, Oxford University (1957)
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Honorary degree, Cambridge University (1957)
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Gold Medal for Distinguished Service, Poetry Society of America (1958)
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Emerson-Thoreau Medal, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1958)
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Medal for Achievements in the Arts, Signet Society, Harvard College (1958)
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Congressional Gold Medal (1960)
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Poet Laureate of Vermont (1961)
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Edward MacDowell Medal (1962)
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Bollingen Prize in Poetry (1963)

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Poetry collections

 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">A Boy's Will
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">North of Boston
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Mountain Interval
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Selected Poems
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">New Hampshire [[image:apenglishp3/RobertFrost.jpg align="right"]]
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Several Short Poems
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Selected Poems
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">West-Running Brook
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Lovely Shall Be Choosers, The Poetry Quartos, printed and illustrated by Paul Johnston
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Collected Poems of Robert Frost
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Lone Striker
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Selected Poems: Third Edition
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Three Poems
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Gold Hesperidee
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">From Snow to Snow
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">A Further Range
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Collected Poems of Robert Frost
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">A Witness Tree
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Come In, and Other Poems
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Steeple Bush
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Complete Poems of Robert Frost, 1949
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Hard Not To Be King
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Aforesaid
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">A Remembrance Collection of New Poems
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">You Come Too
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">In the Clearing
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Poetry of Robert Frost
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">A Further Range
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">What Fifty Said
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Fire And Ice
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">A Drumlin Woodchuck

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Plays

 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">A Way Out: A One Act Play
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Cow's in the Corn: A One Act Irish Play in Rhyme
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">A Masque of Reason
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">A Masque of Mercy

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Prose books

 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Robert Frost and John Bartlett: The Record of a Friendship, by Margaret Bartlett Anderson
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Selected Letters of Robert Frost
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Interviews with Robert Frost
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Family Letters of Robert and Elinor Frost
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Robert Frost and Sidney Cox: Forty Years of Friendship
 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Notebooks of Robert Frost, edited by Robert Faggen

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Letters

 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1, 1886–1921

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Spoken word

 * <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Robert Frost Reads His Poetry, Caedmon Records, 1957, TC1060

=<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Work Cited =

<span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">“Robert Frost.” Poets. Academy of American Poets, n.d. Web. 1 Apr. 2014. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/192>. <span style="color: #051b54; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. YouTube. YouTube, 21 Apr. 2010. Web. 3 Apr. 2014. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfOxdZfo0gs>.