Poem: Stopping by woods on a snowy evening by Robert Frost

                                                 

Analysis of the 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 Pandit Javaharlal 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 that is significant. The poem is about poets going to the forest and getting tempted to stay their and finally realising that he has many works to be done by him and so he can not stop in the forest. This present poem is about the internal dilemma of the poet's between love for beauty and sense of duty. This kinds of dilemma is witnessed by every person at some stage in life. We all are some times tempted by beauty of nature to stop their for long time but the work which is to be done by us. 

              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 head to ring the balls which are tide to its harness. The horse wants to ask the poet whether he is mistaken in making a stay in that Forest. The reason behind it is the darkness evening, lack is frozen and the snow fall is there. So gesture of his horse reminds the poet that the woods 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 dies. The final message of the poem is that sense of beauty in life is more important than tempting beauty. No tempting beauty should ever prove to bed a hindrance on the path of duty.


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