Essay - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening in the Poem...

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

In the poem "Stopping by Woods ***** a Snowy Evening," poet Robert Frost uses a specific situation to make a general comment on the course of life and the obligati*****s faced ***** the speaker. Part of ***** statement is that people have obligations that keep them focused. Another part ***** that these ***** wear differently at different times in life. A third part is that ***** can take a moment *****nd f*****d respite from their busy lives and then go back to what they have to do.

The conversational tone of the ***** creates a sense of re*****lity causes the reader to accept ***** the poet is speaking the truth as he perceives it. The situation ***** clear from ***** title, and it is made more specific in the ***** ***** ***** poem ***** we learn that the speaker is in a wagon or buggy drawn by a horse. *****s he passes through t***** woods, he is drawn ***** the peace and beauty of Nature seen all around him, and th***** takes *****e attention of the speaker away ***** his duties and toward the ***** and tranquil*****y that would come if he were to fuse with nature and aban*****n the human issues he faces in society. However, t***** speaker *****not do this, for he has a strong sense of duty to *****self and others that prevents him from surrender*****g to the lure of nature ***** from aban*****ning the affairs of this world. Frost uses enjambment to carry the ***** from one line to the next and so ***** link the images, creating a flowing experience ***** is like life, with each event emerging from the ***** be*****e. Th***** al***** gives ***** ***** a structure mirroring life, and it can be read not just as a ***** situation but as a representation of the course of life, with this moment ***** reflection coming at a mid-point on ***** journey.

***** poem is written in iambic tetrameter, and th***** meter is observed carefully *****out *****e poem. The regularity of the meter h***** two effects--it creates a certa***** lazy feeling that contributes to the idea that ***** speaker ***** tired and wants to go to sleep, and it im*****ates the regularity of ***** horse's hooves when the carriage is moving. It also serves as a ***** of the flow of life, which may seem random at a given moment but ***** h***** an overall flow ***** ***** be discerned by an objective view. ***** r*****yme scheme is ***** regular, with a slight variation in ***** last of the four stanzas. The ***** is AABA ***** the first stanza, and BBCB in ***** second. The third is CCDC, and the variation in the fourth is that ***** scheme is DDDD. Again, th***** shift in rhyme along ***** the repetition of the third line, repeated exactly as ***** fourth *****, again indicates sleepiness in a way that casts a spell over the reader. The use of enjambment has