Stopping by wood on a snowy evening
By: Robert Frost
Analysis of this poem: Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
is one of the most celebrated poems of Robert Frost. The first prime minister
of independent India pundit Jawaharlal Nehru was so much impressed with the
message of this poem that he always kept this poem on the table beneath the
glass. The poem is simple but the message which it conveys the significant the
poem is about poets going to the forest, getting tempted to stay there and finally
realizing that he has many works to be done by him and so he cannot stop in the
forest it is a poem about the internal dilemma of the poem between love for
beauty and sense of duty this kind of dilemma is witnessed by every person at
some stage in life. We all are some stage in life. We all are sometimes tempted
by beauty of nature to stop there for a long time but the work which is to be
done by us. Reminds us for our duty and we do not stop for a long time where
that beautiful place is this truth of life convey by the poet though present
poem.
The subject matter of the poem is
simple the poet goes to a dark deep lovely forest. On his horse back it is such
a beautiful place that the poet is tempted to stop there and past that night in
the forest but the horse of the poet shakes its heard to ring the balls which
are tide to its harness. The horse wants to ask poet whether he is mistaken in
making a stay in that forest the reason is it is the darkness evening the lack
is trozen and the snow fall is there, such a gesture of his horse reminds the
poet that the words are lovely dark and deep but he has so many promises to
keep. He has to perform many duties before he sleeps in the forest and before
he die the final message of the poem is that sense of beauty in light is more
important than tempting beauty. No tempting beauty should ever prove to be a
hindrance on the path of duty.
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