This beautiful, iambic tetrameter metered poem captures the silence of a snowy evening as the speaker stands at the base of the woods. Written in 1922, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is often interpreted as being a metaphor for death, and therein lies the beauty of 'ulteriority.' Is this a poem about death always lurking nearby, or honestly a poem about a man 'stopping by woods on a snowy evening' with his horse?
After reading and analyzing this text, please comment on 'the sound of sense' in this poem, or the how of the poem; how the ideas in the poem are delivered, the way the words and lines are structured. Remember to keep in mind an appreciation of Frost's literary decisions.
After reading and analyzing this text, please comment on 'the sound of sense' in this poem, or the how of the poem; how the ideas in the poem are delivered, the way the words and lines are structured. Remember to keep in mind an appreciation of Frost's literary decisions.